ENGL 2025 : STUDY GUIDE Engl 2025
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Menippean satire: satire of ideas or common sense beliefs ( status quo ) then reduce them to the absurd. Tested with absurdism until its reduced to nothing. Tend to be travel or journey stories / or a sense of an endless quest. Dialogue between the philosophus gloriosus and everyman (doesn"t have to be only. Ambiguity: doesn"t offer solutions or definite answers. Just bring up questions and leaving it up to the reader (voltaire does this well) one person fitting each role) Horatian satire: general and light, does mock, but its whimsical. Juvinenalian satire: cutting , targets one thing until it reduced to rubble with satire. Satire of the academy :has to have a target. Mockumentary: ( take the money and run) first one done, it was just a tribute. Uncanny: (freaud): tends to have a lot in common with humor, familiar unfamilarness: relatable yet some what un relatable. Tends to create confusion yet a sense of familiarity.
