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Daniel Defoe
1660-1731 pg. 583 Ups and downs in business as a merchant Wrote controversial Political pamphlets Put in the pillory or stocks and pelted with flowers instead of rotten fruit Began writing novels in his late 50s. Robinson Crusoe was Defoes first Novel
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GULLIVERS TRAVELS
SATIRE--A literary technique in which behaviors or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society EXAMPLES: SNL, COMICS, CARICATURES, PARODIES
Examples of Satire
Weekend Update from Saturday Night Live The Daily Show the movie Scary Movie the movies of Austin Powers most political cartoons in newspapers and magazines the songs of Weird Al Yankovic
Satire Today
SATIRE IN COMICS
CARICATURES
FANTASY
Literature in which the limits of reality are purposely disregarded
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