Table of Contents

Definition

Review of Research

In the Classroom

Mentor Texts

Early Examples

Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

Modern Examples

The Onion

Babylon Bee

Private Eye

MAD Magazine

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