Examples of satire in the following topics:
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- Satire can be a useful tool to draw out the shortcomings of an argument.
- Satire is one of many strategies that can be used to effectively distinguish your argumentative position from another that you feel is flawed.
- Satire is a tone that can be deployed in summarizing a position in order to not only draw out its shortcomings, but also to correct or change the shortcomings of the position as well.
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- Satire is a humorous tone that can be deployed in summarizing a position in order to not only draw out its shortcomings, but also to correct or change the shortcomings of the position.
- Well-done satire can make the reader smile, perhaps even if he or she is one of the pet-friendly owners referenced in the paragraph.
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- Renowned family therapist Virginia Satir once mused, "I have often thought had there been somebody like me around, something might have been able to be done [about her own divorce]."