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Satire is one of the most effective methods of persuasive communication whether it is exemplified in writing, cartoon, movie, or sit-com. Satire a medium, chiefly literary, in which societal or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are brought to attention by means of ridicule, sarcasm, parody, irony, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. ... The gentle mockery of Horace and the bitter brutality of Juvenal have come to represent two of the main kinds of satire—Horatian and Juvenalian.
Satire appears in all major national literatures. ... (World Book)
A period of thoughtful satire occurred during the late 1600s and early 1700s in English literature.
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