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Satire - Coggle Diagram

- - - - speaks out in the 1st person
        
        Horatian satire
        
        It is comic and offers light social commentary. It is meant to introduce fun at a person or situation in an entertaining way - it tells the truth with a smile
        
        it uses a relaxed and informal language to evoke from readers and show human failings and absurdities
        
        named after the poet Horace
        
        Juvenalian satire
        
        The speaker is a serious moralist. It is meant to speak truth to power.
        
        in its realism is stronger than Horatian satire
        
        ..."I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race" (Chapter XXIV - p. 223)
        
        quotes:
        
        ..."but when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote agin." (chapter VI - p. 40)
        
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        after the Roman Satirist Juvenal
    - - In a fictional narrative
      - Menippean
        
        they are written in prose, usually
        with interpolations of verse, and constitute a miscellaneous form often held together by a loosely constructed narrative