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Assignment:
PART A: Short Answer
Identify and state the satiric significance of FIVE of the following NINE terms or quotes.
Note: In your answers, refer specifically to the satiric work that the term or quote refers to and describe its satiric significance/meaning. If the term does not refer to a specific work, use a text of your choice from our course to illustrate the term.
If the term is a quote, which text is it from? What satiric targets and techniques are on display? Try to make your answers as thorough as possible!
Also, please make sure to paraphrase our course definitions (and offer an illustration that is not already given with the definition).
1. "If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."
2. Gargantua's miraculous birth
3. Allegory
4. "How is it, Maecenas, that no one is content with his own lot - / whether he has got it by an act of choice or taken it up / by chance - but instead envies people in other occupations?"
5. Defamiliarization
6. Hyperbole (give a different example of hyperbole than the one I mentioned for the definition!) Lanx satura
8. Irony
9. Grotesque