Byron's Use of Rhetorical Devices for Satire in the Vision of Judgement
Graduation Date
Spring 1963
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Granting Institution
Catholic University of America
Program Name
Humanities
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to classify the various techniques of satire which Byron uses in The Vision of Judgment under three headings: 1) burlesque; the poem as a whole is a burlesque of Southey’s Vision of Judgement; 2) irony; the poem is a sustained niece of irony; 3) rhetorical devices; the poem uses a large number of then effectively for satiric ends.
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