What Do You Know About Satire In English Literature?
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 381
Satire is a genre of literature, and a few times performance and graphics arts. If this sounds great! You should take this quiz and test your knowledge on this genre.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often?- A.
Societal vices
- B.
Government vices
- C.
Nature of things
- D.
Social criticism
- 2.
It is all about using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in?
- A.
Government
- B.
Corporation
- C.
Society
- D.
All of the above
- 3.
A feature of satire is strong sarcasm and?
- A.
Parody
- B.
Burlesque
- C.
Exaggeration
- D.
All of the above
- 4.
Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression including?
- A.
Poetry
- B.
Internet memes
- C.
Jole blogs
- D.
None of the above
- 5.
From which language does the word Saturn comes from?
- A.
Saturn
- B.
Sa lanx
- C.
Lanx satura
- D.
None of the above
- 6.
The word satura as used by Quintilian was used to denote only Roman verse?
- A.
Gothic
- B.
Poetry
- C.
Satire
- D.
Poem
- 7.
Laughter is not an essential component of?
- A.
Poetry
- B.
Epic
- C.
Satire
- D.
Poen
- 8.
There are some types of satire that not meant to be?
- A.
Ode
- B.
Funny
- C.
Sarcastic
- D.
Vices
- 9.
Conversely, not all humor, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessary?
- A.
Archaic
- B.
Satirical
- C.
Burlesque
- D.
Parody
- 10.
Historically, satire has satisfied the popular need to debunk and?
- A.
Attack
- B.
Throw jab
- C.
Ridicule
- D.
Made fun
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