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Satire Flashcards

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Horatian Satire

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Satire in which the voice is indulgent, amused, and witty.

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Satire

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Literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous.

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Juvenilian Satire

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Formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with indignation. (harsh)

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Irony

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Is saying something but meaning another.

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Sarcasm

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Is more caustic, crude, and heavy-handed than irony.

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Parody

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To imitate the style of some person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the original.

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance or semblance of truth or reality.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.

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Understatement

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A statement that says less than is actually true.

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Burlesque

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A form of comedy characterized by ridiculous exaggeration.

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

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Spurious

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Not genuine, authentic, or true.

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Furtive

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Attempting to avoid notice or attention; typically because of guilt.

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Anomaly

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A deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.

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Cynical

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Distrustful of human sincerity and integrity.

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Who wrote “A Modest Proposal”?

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Jonathan Swift

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Which monarch declared themselves ruler of Ireland so foreign powers couldn’t use the island as an attack base?

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Henry VIII

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After Britain made Ireland a colony, they gave land grants to whom?

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Protestant Settlers

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Britain got these land grants by doing what?

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Confiscating it from the Irish

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Dispossessed Catholic farmers were forced to do what?

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They were forced to move inferior land or work as tenants.

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The satire targeting “A Modest Proposal” is _________

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The people of Ireland

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