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  2. Greek riddles - Wikipedia

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    A blackened lump am I-and fire begat me: My mother was a tree on mountain steep. I save from wounds the chariot of the sea, If my sire melts me in a vessel deep. (xiv.61) The answer are: night and day; a reflection in a mirror; double flute played by one person with ten fingers; smoke; pitch, used for caulking ships.

  3. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.