Notes:
satire: a work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, verbal irony, and/or parody.
verbal irony: stating one thing but meaning another.
parody: humorous imitation of a serious work.
Vocabulary:
melancholy: depressed
prodigious: enormous
deplorable: miserable
rudiment: basic principle or skill
proficiency: competence; expertise
importuning: demand with urgency or persistence
sustenance: nourishment
deference: courteous regard or respect
expedient: a means to an end
encumbrance: a burden
emulation: an effort to equal or outdo another person
animosity: hostility; hatred
perpetual: everlasting; continual
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