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  2. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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    A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...

  3. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  4. Caricature - Wikipedia

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    A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, and can serve a political purpose, be drawn solely for entertainment, or for a combination of both.

  5. Category:Caricature - Wikipedia

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    A caricature is a humorous illustration that exaggerates or distorts the basic essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. According to the Indian cartoonist S. Jithesh, caricature is the satirical illustration of a person but a cartoon is the satirical illustration of an idea.

  6. Major-General's Song - Wikipedia

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    The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.The biographer Michael Ainger, however, doubts that Gilbert intended a caricature of Wolseley, identifying instead the older General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert's wife whom Gilbert disliked, as a more likely inspiration for the satire.

  7. A Modest Video Game Proposal - Wikipedia

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    The content of the game closely follows the description of the "Modest Proposal". [5] The story follows a disgruntled father by the name of Osaki Kim (a fictional character name that Thompson selected in his letter), whose son was murdered and takes his revenge upon the games industry, which he blames for "training" the man who killed his son ...

  8. Justin Baldoniā€™s 27-minute proposal video resurfaces amid co ...

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    She went on to play snippets of the proposal video, adding: “If your boyfriend makes you watch a 30-minute video of himself, as a proposal to you, you need to run girl. Like this is not normal.”

  9. List of caricaturists - Wikipedia

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    A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. [1] List of caricaturists. Abed Abdi (born 1942) Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) Al Hirschfeld (1903 ...