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Satire Defined
A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism, it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice or social wrongs. It may be written with witty jocularity or with anger and bitterness.
Sidelight: Satiric poets often utilize irony, hyperbole, understatement, and paradox, as in Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot .
Sidelight: Satire is direct when the author is clearly expressing his own opinion, as in Pope's example above, and indirect when embodied in a hypocritical character such as the Pardoner in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
(See also Burlesque, Goliardic Poetry, Hudibrastic Verse, Lampoon, Mock Epic, Parody, Pasquinade)
(Compare Antiphrasis)
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Sat Jul 4
- Funny Website - Cracked.com ? America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958
- Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide Homepage
- The Daily Week: Comedy newspaper
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
- PETS WHO WANT TO KILL THEMSELVES
- Today's News Art: This is a hilarious site--it takes news headlines, fine art, and then creates hilarious narratives to go along with them
- Aaronovitch Watch: Bullying, Babies, Browns, and Blair: That's a pretty good articulation of the position exactly opposite to DA's. (I don't remember his being quite so keen on our friends in the press when he was in office, but we'll come to that.) And a former satirist: Always the people in power, when you win an election, you have a honeymoon, because the people even if they've elected you narrowly, feel that you deserve a chance. But once that's over, you're fair game. And that's very good, because if you have to choose between a government which gets away with things, and an unfair media, I'd always choose the unfair media (though I wish they were fair).
- Fully Ramblomatic.co m - the website for REAL MEN.
- Something Awful Apologizes for Making Sarah Palin Resign
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