5. Satire is a form of writing either in
prose or in verse in which a person or
society is held up to ridicule. The
motive of the writer is to provoke
fun. However, no matter what the
writer’s aim, satire can be very bitter
and sarcastic or just humorous.
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6. Satire :
• a literary term used
to ridicule or make
fun of human vice or
weakness,
often with the intent
of correcting, or
changing, the subject
of the satiric attack
7. Satire is as old as the English language.
The history of satire can be traced
back to the 14th century and to the
poetry of Jeffery Chaucer.
Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales
satirizes a large number of characters.
8. Satire is associated with the 18th
century’s poets like John Dryden and
Alexander Pope who were masters of
the Heroic couplets
Heroic couplet: a stanza consisting of
two rhyming lines in iambic
pentameter, especially one forming a
rhetorical unit and written in an
elevated style
9. Examples of famous
satire poems are:
Dryden’s
Mac Flecknoe
and
Absalom and Achitophel
and Pope’s The Dunciad
