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Also Known As	mock-heroic

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epic satire parody burlesque fool’s literature Menippean satire conceptismo sotie pasquinade Juvenalian satire lampoon The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 Was Sci-Fi Passed Off as News

Key People

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

Scandinavian author

Richard Owen Cambridge

English author