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cited in Snyder 573 and was instrumental in arranging a financial reward for Defoe for the tracts Giles Jacob included a short entry on Defoe in his Poetical Register 1723 commenting that he had. Great Expectations. English 1 CAS. Satire. In a literary work, satire is writing that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as:. Exaggeration. Reversal (irony). Incongruity (things that don’t match up or make sense). Understanding the works of Swift. . Satire: a technical definition. “… the literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation” (Abrams, . English 10: British Literature . Mr. . Ambrose & Ms. Stevens. Featuring Shrek, The Tick, Monty Python, and the Onion. What is satire?. Satire: . A literary work that ridicules its subject in order to make a comment or criticism about it.. A brief overview. Night class – Spring 2013. What is satire?. Satire is a style of rhetoric that exposes vices and foolishness in people and society . Satire generally uses humor, irony, sarcasm, and other techniques to get an emotional reaction from the audience. Dr. Maier. Satire. Definition: A genre that pokes fun at some element of society (or society as a whole) and often uses laughter as a means of correcting vice.. . Horatian versus Juvenalian Satire. Horatian Satire: pokes fun at society through good-natured and playful humor. . . Even light-hearted satire has a serious after-taste:. "first make people laugh, and then make them think.". Definition of Satire. A genre in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, . Satire’s Bodies: Horace (II). ‘. This satire itself requires the immoral body as the . fons. et . origo. . of its own speech’. . Gunderson ‘The libidinal rhetoric of satire’ in . ENG 3UI . Literary Terms. describe . types of . stories . used . throughout literary history and describe many famous . works. may . be told in prose or in . verse . An . individual story may fall under one or multiple combinations of these . Humor for the intelligent—. will you get it? . Satire Defined . One of the oldest forms of literature and one of the most durable. A constructive art that seeks not merely to destroy but to rebuild; aim is to inspire reform. Satire is a literary genre in which human vices or shortcomings are highlighted (often through sarcasm or irony), with the intent to bring about improvement. . Purpose: . while satire is usually funny, it has a serious purpose – the author wants to try to fix the problems of society. . Thomas McClure. What is Satire?. Satire is a . genre of literature, and . sometimes . other medias, . in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into . vers. . libre. ”. . blank verse. . formal verse. /. closed form. Light Verse. Poetry . on . trivial, . playful . themes, written . primarily to amuse and . entertain, . often involves the use of nonsense and . Satire is a style of rhetoric that exposes vices and foolishness in people and society . Satire generally uses humor, irony, sarcasm, and other techniques to get an emotional reaction from the audience. Satire (Noun): . A literary manner which combines humor with criticism for the purpose of instruction or the improvement of . humanity. Modern Satirists. Early Western Satirists. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): .