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From the Latin satira, meaning medley or mixture. Nowadays the term describes texts which have a critical tone and ridicule social or moral problems and political deficits. Literary scholars are still undecided whether satire is a genre of its own, or a literary mode (a way of writing).
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Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.