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British Art Snots are Working in the Dark

Prompt

Identify the main idea and the purpose of the text.

3 Examples of Irony family rhetorical strategies used in the text

Write 2 RAPS sentences (on your running document of RAPS sentences) over the text. One should focus on one of the new Irony family rhetorical strategies and the other can be one previously covered in class

Response

The authors' main idea is to criticize modern art and how unartistic it is.

  • Dave Barry’s quirky satire reveals his humorous appeals while implying the difficulty of old-fashioned art with examples such as “Mike L. Angelo” and “It always winds up with most of the paint in its hair. So the public considers the Sistine Chapel to be a major artistic achievement”
  • Dave Barry’s use of epithet to juxtapose the views of modern artists and the public ultimately criticizes modern inartistic art in examples such as “Your professional art snots” and “stupid old moron public”