All 4 Uses of
satire
in
Nine Stories
- He said he was mostly interested in the satiric rather than the arty side of painting.†
Story 8 *
- It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with belowshoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister.†
Story 8standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Actually, I was much less struck by the satiric implications of the picture than I was by the quality of workmanship that had gone into it.†
Story 8
- I almost begged R. Howard Ridgefield to give up his satire for a while.†
Story 8
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