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What is satire?

Satire is a literary device by which the satirist aims at amending or correcting the follies and vices of an individual,institution,society, or nation .The role of a satirist is the role of a reformar.
Satire owes it's root to ancient Rome as the two notable Roman satirist cultivated by this form of writing.Thus ,satire is classified into two broad categories as -
(1) Horatian satire or Indirect satire
(2) Juvenalian satire or Direct satire
The English satirist starting from the metaphysical poets like -Donne ,Marvell to Restoration and Augustan satirist like John Dryden , Alexander Pope,Jonathan Swift.

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