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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies...
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    convenience of readers. Book I: Satires 1–5 Book II: Satire 6 Book III: Satires 7–9 Book IV: Satires 10–12 Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved)...
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    Political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics. Political satire can also act as a tool for advancing political...
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  • The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals...
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  • restarted in 2010 SatireWire is a news satire website. Based in Connecticut and founded by Andrew Marlatt, the site aimed its satire at politics, business...
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  • News satire or news comedy is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News...
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  • Satire is a television and film genre in the fictional or pseudo-fictional category that employs satirical techniques. Film or television satire may be...
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  • Persian satire refers to satires in Persian literature. The Arabic poetic genre of hija (satirical poetry) was introduced after the Islamic conquest of...
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  • News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire is not...
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    Black comedy (redirect from Black satire)
    (risata verde or groen lachen), and said that grotesque satire, as opposed to ironic satire, is the one that most often arouses this kind of laughter...
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    Benjamin Franklin was responsible for writing satirical comedies. His most notable humorous work is the collection called The Bagatelles. The Bagatelles...
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    kept it. Other title variations include subtitles like "A Satire" and "A Contemporary Satire". Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes...
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  • Satire VI is the most famous[according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English...
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    The Satire of the Trades, also called The Instruction of Kheti, is a didactic work of ancient Egyptian literature. It takes the form of an instruction...
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    Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody. From the earliest times...
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    ruses which engender dramatic irony, which provokes laughter. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray people or social institutions as ridiculous...
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  • involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Aesop (c. 620–560...
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  • Look up satires in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Satires are cultural texts in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule...
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  • Anatomy of Satire: A Study of Satiric Technique. Harvard University Press. Cook, Virgil Aldwin (1980). Jonathan Swift's Theory of Satire. Vanderbilt...
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  • This Is Satire is None More Black's second full-length album. It was released on Fat Wreck Chords in May 2006. The title "We Dance on the Ruins of the...
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  • huge solo success." —The Telegraph, “The day that sparked the satire boom”. The satire boom was the output of a generation of British satirical writers...
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  • "The Continental" is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live (SNL) featuring Christopher Walken. The first sketch aired on the eleventh episode of the...
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    Satire on False Perspective is the title of an engraving produced by William Hogarth in 1754 for his friend Joshua Kirby's pamphlet on linear perspective...
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  • Frank Satire is a journalist for the Kultura Newspaper: Articles: "Kultura" newspaper - Frank, author, radio newscaster and TV anchor. He attended the...
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    that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule). Often constructed to achieve a specific...
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  • Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era. The phrase...
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    dragging them into the low realm of the burlesque. Don Quixote modified the satire of romances: its hero lost contact with reality by reading too many romances...
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    The Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire (Russian: Московский академический театр сатиры) is a dramatic theatre in Moscow, Russia, established in 1924. Wikimedia...
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  • This is a list of films that incorporate satire or were described as such. Made-for-television and animated films are also included. Satirical film Category...
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    AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, although references within...
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