Satire: The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize or expose human folly, vice, or institutions.
How to apply it: Analyze the target of the satire, the techniques used to expose it, and the values the poem implicitly champions.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Poetry III
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