Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. In the article "The the impotence of proofreading" by Taylor Mali the importance of proofreading is what is being satirized. It is being satirized by the author writing the article with a lot of spelling mistake's trying to use irony to show me the importance of proofreading. "Has this ever happened to you ? You work very hard on a paper for English class and then get a very low grade (like a D or even a D-) and all because you are the world's worst speller. Proofreading your papers is a matter of the utmost impotence." An example of satire is when he says "Proofreading your peppers is matter of the utmost impotence" by saying peppers he means papers but he misspelled it on purpose to show me what happens when you don't proofread. Another example is when he says "When it comes to proofreading, the red penis your friend" here everything is spelled correctly but you have to break a word for the sentence could make sense while the author is trying to be funny.
The article "Tim Cook : 'I'm thinking printers'" is an example of satire. One piece that is being satirized is that the whole idea of apple came from a company who started making printers. The article reads "Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company’s future." It is being satirized by it saying that the future of the company is in printers which was what the Zerox company believed in the 1970's. Also it says "upcoming Apple products such as the iPhone 5 would be postponed for at least four years so the company could throw all its time and resources into the creation of high-quality printers for the home and office." In reality the real future of the company is the iPhone 5.
