Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

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.

The word satire comes from the Latin word "satur" and the subsequent phrase "." "Satur" meant "full" but the juxtaposition with "lanx" shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression "lanx satura" literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits."

The word "satura" as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as "satire". Quintilian famously said that "satura," that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly Roman origin ("satura tota nostra est"). He was aware of and commented on Greek satire, but at the time did not label it as such, although today the origin of satire is considered to be Aristophanes' Old Comedy. The first critic to use the term "satire" in the modern broader sense was Apuleius.

1. What is the article about?
2. What is Satire?
3. What is it's origin considered as of today?
4. Who used Satura?
5. What was it used for?
6. what did he say about it?
7. did it also come from another language?
8. which one?
9. what does it mean in Latin?
10. does the meaning change if added to lanx?
11. to what?
12. what would Lanx Satura really mean?
13. could you name a feature of satire please?
14. Is Satire found these days?
15. where?
16. are these artistic?
17. can it be used to shame people?
18. is it always used as humor?
19. what is it's main goal?
20. what is used in a satirical writing?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. satire
2. 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
3. Aristophanes' Old Comedy
4. Quintilian
5. to denote only Roman verse satire,
6. that it was a literary genre of wholly Roman origin ("satura tota nostra est")
7. yes
8. Latin
9. "full"
10. yes
11. "to "miscellany or medley"
12. a full dish of various kinds of fruits
13. humor
14. yes
15. memes, literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics
16. yes
17. yes
18. no
19. constructive social criticism
20. parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre

Q: Chapter 11: Cortez.

The expedition, whose arrival had caused such excitement in Mexico, was commanded by Hernando Cortez, a man who united in his person all the gifts requisite for a great leader of men. He possessed a handsome person, great strength and skill at arms, extraordinary courage and daring, singular powers of conciliation and of bringing others to his way of thinking, pleasing and courteous demeanor, a careless and easy manner which concealed great sagacity and wisdom, an inexhaustible flow of spirits, and an iron determination.

Born in Estremadura in 1485, of an ancient and respectable family, he was--like many others who have distinguished themselves as great soldiers--while at school and college remarkable rather for mischievous freaks, and disregard of authority, than for love of learning. At the age of seventeen he had exhausted his parents' patience, and was on the point of starting with the expedition of Ovando, the successor to Columbus, when he so injured himself by a fall, incurred in one of his wild escapades, that he was unable to sail with it. Two years later, however, he went out in a merchant vessel to the Indies.

On reaching Hispaniola Ovando, who was governor of the island, received him kindly, and gave him a grant of land and a number of Indians to till it. The quiet life of the planter, however, little suited the restless young fellow; and after taking part in several military expeditions against insurgent natives, under the command of Diego Velasquez, he sailed in 1511, with that officer, to undertake the conquest of Cuba.

1. Hernando Cortez
2. all the gifts requisite
3. great strength and skill at arms,
4. yes
5. no
6. the expedition of Ovando
7. no
8. he injured himself
9. yes
10. kindly,
11. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who was the leader of the expedition?
2. What made him such a good leader?
3. What type of gifts?
4. Did he have a strong effect on others?
5. Was he known for his love of learning?
6. What expedition happened after Columbus's?
7. Did Cortez partake in that expedition?
8. What stopped him?
9. Did he ever make it to Hispaniola Ovando?
10. How did the governor react to him?
11. Did he come from a newer family?