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 * Literary Device**: Irony
 * Text**: "...chased Candide out of the castle with great kicks to his backside; Cunégonde fainted; as soon as she came to her senses she had her face slapped by the Baroness, and all was consternation in the most beautiful and delightful of possible castles." (Voltaire 1)
 * Context**: Candide is chased out of the castle of Westphilia and Cunégonde is punished because they were caught kissing each other.
 * Explanation of literary device**: This is an example of an irony because this kind of dismay does not match the description of the castleㅡ "the most beautiful and delightful of possible castles."
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing the distress in a castle that is supposed to be the most delightful of all possible castles.
 * Contributor**: Christina S.


 * Literary Device**: Irony
 * Text**: "being a king of rare genius, he understood from everything he learned about Candide that here was young metaphysician entirely unschooled in the ways of the world, and he granted him his pardon with a clemency whose praises will be sung in all the newspapers for all the ages." (Voltaire 3)
 * Context**: Candide was flogged and when he was about to be shot, the King of the Bulgars passed by and pardoned him.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is an irony because the King will be praised in the newspapers for a long time for pardoning an innocent man.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing how the King will be praised for even something that is not worthy of praising.
 * Contributor**: Christina S.


 * Literary Device**: Hyperbole
 * Text**: "He was asked at his court-martial which he preferred: to be flogged by his entire regiment thirty-six times, or receive twelve lead bullets in his skull simultaneously."
 * Context**: Candide is being given a choice between getting hit by the whole army, or getting shot in the head as a punishment.
 * Explanation of literary device**: This is a hyperbole because Voltaire probably exaggerated it; the treatments are too inhuman and cruel.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing people's ill-treatment toward each other.
 * Contributor**: Rachel S.


 * Literary Device**: irony
 * Text**: "..that they were all Christians, he had no doubt that he would be treated there as well as he had been in the Baron's castle..." "...they all replied that if he continued in this vein eh would be locked up in a house of correction and be taught how to earn his living."
 * Context**: He asked people for help, thinking that they were nice, but they repllied very hostility.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is irony because they're Christians, and Christians are always told to love and help everyone.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing the people's hostility towards Candide when they're supposed to be "Christians."
 * Contributor**: Rachel S.