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What is Satire?

Dictionary.com defines "Satire" as a noun:

1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
 
satire. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved September 12, 2017 from Dictionary.com website http://www.dictionary.com/browse/satire

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