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Satire
The literary style which makes light of a subject, diminishing its importance
-often sarcastic
The enlightenment
Reason over emotion
Horatian Satire
Light hearted
Less offensive
-Rape of the Lock
A mock epic
Juvenalian Satire
Harsh satire
Ridicule
-a modest proposal
Mock epic
Rape of the lock
form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject. The tradition, which originated in classical times with an anonymous burlesque of Homer, the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and the Mice), was honed to a fine art in the late 17th- and early 18th-century Neoclassical period
Alexander Pope
Author of Rape of the Lock
Jonathan Swift
Author of a modest proposal
William Wordsworth
Wonder lonely as a cloud
Samuel Coleridge
Rhyme of the Ancient mariner
Belinda
The beautiful young lady in Rape of the Lock
-she got that hair
The Baron
The one who admires Belinda. He plots tout off her hair