【正确答案】正确答案：satire: Satire is the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. It e-vokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it. A tradition of English verse satire runs through Donne, Jonson, Dryden, Pope, and Samuel Johnson; of prose satire, Addison, Swift, and Fielding.