[EN 3193] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (49 pages long!)
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Next week, in class about a modest proposal; bring student card. Not marked on grammar, spelling, or format but rather on ideas. Non-literary definitions of satire; useless for our purposes: use of ridicule or irony to expose folly or vice; work or composition using satire. Irony and satire are not synonymous: the use of sarcasm, irony, or wit in exposing abuses or follies; ridicule; a written composition in which vice, folly etc. ; is held up to ridicule; synonymous with chaff, raillery, mockery, derision. Unhelpful synonyms; part of satire but not satire. Various forms of literature may be satirical, from the plays of ben jonson or of moliere and the poetry of. Chaucer or byron to the prose writings of rabelais and voltaire. The models of roman satire, especially the verse satires of. Horace and juvenal, inspired some important imitations by. Boileau, pope, and johnson in the greatest period of satire the.
