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What is a Horatian satire?

O A. A work that uses light humor to criticize something about society
O B. A short story used to illustrate a moral, usually with animals as
characters
C. A short story, set firmly in reality, told to illustrate a moral or
religious lesson
D. A form of writing that criticizes society in a harsh and sarcastic
way

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Horatian satire--After the Roman satirist Horace: Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader not the anger of a Juvenal, but a wry smile.

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