All 3 Uses of
satire
in
A Room of One's Own
- This heat took many forms; it showed itself in satire, in sentiment, in curiosity, in reprobation.†
Chpt 2 *
- Naturally, if that was her habit and that was her delight, she could only expect to be laughed at; and, accordingly, Pope or Gay is said to have satirized her 'as a blue-stocking with an itch for scribbling'.†
Chpt 4standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Fear and hatred were almost gone, or traces of them showed only in a slight exaggeration of the joy of freedom, a tendency to the caustic and satirical, rather than to the romantic, in her treatment of the other sex.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(satire as in: wrote a satire) a way of making fun of people or ideas -- often through exaggeration
or:
a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses such humor -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus