How to write a satirical analysis essay Please I need help. I don't know how I should structure my essay. My teacher said to analyze the main elements of satire like irony and exaggeration, but I can only really find one element of satire in it (exaggeration) but there's other rhetorical strategies there. I just don't know how to go about writing this. It's question 2 on the 2009 AP Language and composition exam, analyzing an excerpt from the book "The Future of Life" which is a passage written from the point of view of a people-first critic stereotyping environmentalists and one from the point of view of an environmentalist stereotyping people-first critics.