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Which story is the best example of a satire?

a story in which a character refuses to throw away a broken pen and uses it despite its limitations, where the pen stands for the love of his father
a cruel ruler who is obsessed with fashion one day finds that his clothes have been replaced with potato sacks
a story in which a selfish, ornery fox realizes, with the help of a bumblebee, that he can gain more from being kind than from being forceful
a story in which a silly dog constantly gets into compromising circumstances, such as getting stuck in the back of a truck with a pair of cats

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The second story (a cruel ruler obsessed with fashion who wakes up in potato sacks) — it uses exaggeration and irony to mock a social/political failing (vanity, bad leadership, hypocrisy), which is the essence of satire. The others are allegory/moral tale or slapstick rather than satirical critique.