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.  

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