Some resources for teaching about sarcasm
- Look for:
- tone
- non-verbal/facial expression (eye brow raise, etc)
- context
- extra words that hyperbolize a situation
- Sometimes people with really dry humor will not give tonal or non-verbal cues and you rely only on context
Articles:
Videos: **both videos made for adult comedy, screen first and stop before the 2 min mark **
Extra considerations:
- Sarcasm can pretty easily morph into just being rude!
- ‘It was just a joke’ or ‘I was being sarcastic’ is sometimes used when it perhaps wasn’t a joke or it wasn’t funny and the person notices this after the fact and tries to go back on it
- Sarcasm can make someone hard to read and sometimes people will do that on purpose