Satire | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

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00:01:29 1 Etymology and roots
00:04:39 2 Humour
00:05:32 3 Social and psychological functions
00:09:08 4 Classifications
00:09:29 4.1 Horatian, Juvenalian, Menippean
00:09:50 4.1.1 Horatian
00:13:13 4.1.2 Juvenalian
00:17:52 4.1.3 Menippean
00:18:04 4.2 Satire versus teasing
00:21:27 4.3 Classifications by topics
00:24:56 4.4 Classifications by medium
00:26:05 5 Development
00:26:14 5.1 Ancient Egypt
00:27:11 5.2 Ancient Greece
00:28:45 5.3 Roman world
00:30:45 5.4 Medieval Islamic world
00:35:22 5.5 Medieval Europe
00:36:45 5.6 Early modern western satire
00:39:36 5.7 Ancient and modern India
00:41:01 5.8 Age of Enlightenment
00:46:50 5.9 Satire in Victorian England
00:51:02 5.10 20th-century satire
00:56:25 5.11 Contemporary satire
01:06:35 6 Techniques
01:07:10 7 Legal status
01:08:19 7.1 Australia
01:09:27 8 Censorship and criticism
01:10:01 8.1 Typical arguments
01:10:25 8.1.1 Bad taste
01:11:11 8.1.2 Targeting the victim
01:13:39 8.1.3 Romantic prejudice
01:14:25 8.2 History of opposition toward notable satires
01:15:11 8.2.1 1599 book ban
01:16:52 8.2.2 21st-century polemics
01:21:16 9 Satirical prophecy
01:25:35 10 See also



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Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.
Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including internet memes, literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics.