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  2. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]

  3. British humour - Wikipedia

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    Innuendo in British humour is evident in the literature as far back as Beowulf and Chaucer, and it is a prevalent theme in many British folk songs. Shakespeare often used innuendo in his comedies, but it is also often found in his other plays. [6] One example in Hamlet act 4 scene v reads:

  4. Chick lit - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a 2010 Guardian article, humor writer DJ Connell leads with changing her writing name from Diane to DJ to avoid the chick lit label. [31] Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes, two authors who have enjoyed huge success through and beyond the chick lit era, both now reject the term. Kinsella refers to her own work as "romantic comedy ...

  5. Enthymeme - Wikipedia

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    Here is an example of an enthymeme derived from a syllogism through truncation (shortening) of the syllogism: "Socrates is mortal because he's human." The complete formal syllogism would be the classic: All humans are mortal. (major premise – unstated) Socrates is human. (minor premise – stated) Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (conclusion ...

  6. Anti-poetry - Wikipedia

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    His poems have been described as prose-like, irreverent, and illuminating of human existential concerns. [ 4 ] Petropoulos sought to describe the art of anti-poetry in his Berlin notebook containing verses that included intentionally-made mistakes of prosody, grammar, and rhyme.

  7. Menippean satire - Wikipedia

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    The form was revived during the Renaissance by Erasmus, Burton, and Laurence Sterne, [19] while 19th-century examples include the John Buncle of Thomas Amory and The Doctor of Robert Southey. [19] The 20th century saw renewed critical interest in the form, with Menippean satire significantly influencing postmodern literature. [3]

  8. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    Under such premises, people can identify precursors and early examples of surreal humour at least since the 19th century, such as in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, both of which use the illogical and absurd (hookah-smoking caterpillars, croquet matches using live flamingos as mallets, etc.) for ...

  9. Letters from Iceland - Wikipedia

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    First edition. Letters from Iceland is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, published in 1937.Auden revised his sections of the book for a new edition published in 1967.