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Horatian Satire
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A type of formal satire wherein the satirist speaks to the audience in first person voice either directly to the reader or to a character in the satire itself; Horatian satire is gentle, urbane, and smiling; it aims to correct by broadly sympathizing with the subject it criticizes and by using laughter--examples would include Jampes Thurber, Dr. Seuss, Stephen Colbert
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Juvenalian Satire
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Is biting, bitter, and angry; it points with contempt and indignation to the corruption of human beings and institutions--Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is Juvenalian; much of Mark Twain's satire is Juvenalian; H.L. Mencken in Juvenalian
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Juxtapose
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Is to position "side by side" situations that exaggerate the irony contained in a work; look for an artist to juxtapose scenes, setting details, or even statements; for B.N.W., the juxtapositioning occurs in the series of fragmented converations that cross cut through the layers of voices, thoughts, blindness, and manipulation among characters in the novel
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Fragmentation
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Is exactly what it suggests, a technique that shatters coherence and continuity by providing only "fragmented" conversations and moments; this technique creates a sort of cognitive dissonance and "disconnect"; one might also see in it a type of cacophony and chaos
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Euphemism
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Euphemistic language purposefully decieves by "minimizing" the reality or profundity of an idea or occurrence; for example, to refer to the deaths of citizens in time or war as "collateral damage" serves as an example of "euphenism"; in a more common context, Victorian expression denied the use of more "crude" language, so one was not "prgenant" but one was "in the family way"
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Anaphora
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The repitition of the same word at the beginning of two or more phrases or lines
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Platitude
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An empty, cliched attempted to state what is profound but the overused statement rings hollow and empty
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Categorical Imperative
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A moral absolute
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Foil
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A purposeful creation of a pair of perfect opposites, usually with characters (as in Helmholtz and Bernard)
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Quatrain
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Four line-stanza; usually follows an abba or abab or abcb pattern of rhyme
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Couplet
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Two consecutive rhyming lines
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Syllogism
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A logical equation; consists of a major premise, minor premise, and solution
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Enjambment
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The poetic flows into the next line
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