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Satire is best defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize human vices, follies, or social institutions—often with the aim of prompting reflection or reform.
Brief elaboration:
- Purpose: to highlight and correct wrongdoing or absurdity rather than merely to entertain.
- Common techniques: irony, parody, hyperbole, understatement, caricature, and inversion.
- Forms: literature, drama, film, cartoons, television, and social media.
- Examples: Swift’s "A Modest Proposal," Voltaire’s "Candide," modern political cartoons, and satirical news shows (e.g., The Daily Show).
Brief elaboration:
- Purpose: to highlight and correct wrongdoing or absurdity rather than merely to entertain.
- Common techniques: irony, parody, hyperbole, understatement, caricature, and inversion.
- Forms: literature, drama, film, cartoons, television, and social media.
- Examples: Swift’s "A Modest Proposal," Voltaire’s "Candide," modern political cartoons, and satirical news shows (e.g., The Daily Show).
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