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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.

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:
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

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CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE

Black Star and Night, answering to spur, swept swiftly westward along the white, slow-rising, sage-bordered trail. Venters heard a mournful howl from Ring, but Whitie was silent. The blacks settled into their fleet, long-striding gallop. The wind sweetly fanned Venters's hot face. From the summit of the first low-swelling ridge he looked back. Lassiter waved his hand; Jane waved her scarf. Venters replied by standing in his stirrups and holding high his sombrero. Then the dip of the ridge hid them. From the height of the next he turned once more. Lassiter, Jane, and the burros had disappeared. They had gone down into the Pass. Venters felt a sensation of irreparable loss.

"Bern--look!" called Bess, pointing up the long slope.

A small, dark, moving dot split the line where purple sage met blue sky. That dot was a band of riders.

"Pull the black, Bess."

They slowed from gallop to canter, then to trot. The fresh and eager horses did not like the check.

"Bern, Black Star has great eyesight."

"I wonder if they're Tull's riders. They might be rustlers. But it's all the same to us."

The black dot grew to a dark patch moving under low dust clouds. It grew all the time, though very slowly. There were long periods when it was in plain sight, and intervals when it dropped behind the sage. The blacks trotted for half an hour, for another half-hour, and still the moving patch appeared to stay on the horizon line. Gradually, however, as time passed, it began to enlarge, to creep down the slope, to encroach upon the intervening distance.
1. Who were waving at each other?
2. What did Jane wave?
3. What did Lassiter wave?
4. What did Venters do?
5. And what did he hold up?
6. Who was with Venters?
7. What was the name of the horses?
8. What are their specific names?
9. Who saw something in the distance?
10. What did she see?
11. What did the dot turn out to be?
12. At this point could they still see Jane?
13. Where had they gone?
14. How did Venters fill about that?
Numbered answers:
1. Lassiter and jane
2. her scarf
3. his hand;
4. stood in his stirrups
5. his sombrero
6. Lassiter, Jane, and the burros
7. The blacks
8. Black Star and Night
9. bess
10. A small, dark, moving dot
11. a band of riders.
12. No
13. into the Pass.
14. felt irreparable loss.