What is a satire? a. a short story that follows the basic plot line of another earlier story and tries to breathe new life into it. b. a form of writing that criticizes a person, group, or society, using indirect, often disguised, methods. c. a brief story designed to illustrate a general truth about humans, often using animal as characters. d. a short story set firmly in reality, told to illustrate a moral or religious lessons that humans should learn.

B. A form of writing that criticizes a person, group, or Society, using indirect, often disguised, methods.

Explanation:

Satire is an ancient literary genre that elaborates through irony, sarcasm, humor, and finesse a critique of certain values, beliefs or behaviors that a person or a group of people may hold like desirable but that, through closer and acute inspection, are revealed as unjust, unbearable, unsustainable or just simply ridiculous. The prose of Jonathan Swift is a good example of satire.  

active voice: my father cut the tree.

passive voice: the tree was cut by my father.

active voice: people buy newspapers every day.

passive voice: newspapers are bought (by people) every day.

active voice: people have been using movies as political propaganda since world war ii.

passive voice: movies have been used as political propaganda since world war ii.

active voice: donna gave me my birthday present.

passive voice: i was given my birthday present (by donna). / my birthday present was given to me (by donna).

active voice: mom will leave the keys on the counter.

passive voice: the keys will be left (by mom) on the counter.

the words in parentheses are the agent of the passive voice and can be omitted when obvious, generic, or simply unnecessary.

a

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