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aim of satire: 1) to ridicule the fault or failing of the individual
2) to target those faults that are correctable, not those for which the individual is not responsible
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analyzing satire: - what is the writer satirizing?
- what type of satire?
- what is the tone of the satire?
- what is the writers purpose?
- what literary techniques are used?
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Burlesque: -imitation of the manner (form and style) or the subject matter of a serious literary work or genre, in poetry or prose
-intends to amuse by creating a ridiculous disparity between the matter and manner
1) treating a trivial or ridiculous subject in a serious, high toned way
2) treating a serious subject in a light or derogatory way
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butt: the object of satire, may be an individual (in "personal satire"), or a type of person, a class, an institution, a nation, or even the entirety of humanity
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Formal (Direct) Satire: satiric persona- speaker in the literary work- speaks in 1st person; may address the reader or a character within the work itself (the adversarius)
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Horatian Satire: lighter, gentler, less serious in tone; speaker manifests the character of an urbane, witty, and tolerant man of the world; is moved more often to wry amusement than indignation as the spectacle of human folly, pretentiousness or hypocrisy
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Incidental Satire: writing or work whose overall mode is not satiric but contains elements of satire as an aside; an ironic commentary on some aspect of the human condition or of a contemporary society
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Indirect Satire: cast in some other literary form other than that of direct address to the reader; often a fictional narrative in which the objects of the satire are characters who make themselves and their opinions ridiculous or obnoxious by what they think, say, and do, and are sometimes made even more ridiculous by the authors comments and narrative style
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Juvenalian Satire: more serious, even harsh and bitter, in tone; speaker is a serious moralist who uses a dignified and public style of utterance to decry kinds of vice and error that are usually more serious or dangerous; contempt, moral indignation, or unillusioned sadness at human abberations
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Literary Satire: a writing or work whose sole purpose is satirical
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satire: literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation
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satire vs. comedy: one uses laughter as a weapon against the object that exists outside the work itself while the other evokes laughter mainly as an end in itself
