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 * Literary Device**: hyperbole
 * Text**: "We may both die of joy." (Voltaire 79)
 * Context**: Candid meets up with Cacambo and asks about Counégonde.
 * Explanation of literary device**: This is an example of hyperbole because it is an exaggerated statement to say that somebody dies of joy, which never happens in reality.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing Candide's obsessed love with Cunégonde, because he showed that with just the fact that Candide will see Counégonde, he will die of joy.
 * Contributor**: Erin Kim


 * Literary Device**: irony
 * Text**: "A mere commoner who is in a position to give a hundred times as much as each of us, and who moreover gives it?" (Voltaire 82)
 * Context**: Candide just had a dinner with 6 misfortunate kings, and gave a king a hundred times bigger amount of charity than the kings themselves.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is irony because while the kings, who are people that have all they want, and still are rich, whether they are in misfortunate situations or not, pay little bits to King Théodore, Candide, a mere commoner, pays 100 times bigger amount for the man.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing how ironic it could be in a real world where a person who is much poorer than other people could be more giving, also showing how we don't live in the best of all possibilities of a world.
 * Contributor**: Erin Kim

**Literary Device**: hyperbole
 * Text**: "But even were she in China, I would fly to her; let us leave now!" (Voltaire 79).
 * Context**: Candide meets Cacambo, and hears that Cunegonde is in Constantinople. He expresses how far away that is, but shows he would go to her anyway.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is hyperbole, because people don’t normally fly, but walk, or ride a transportation which means that this is exaggeration.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing how foolish Candide can be in believing that he could reach her whenever and where ever she is, which one would not hope for because of all the misfortunate events, and obstacles towards reuniting with Cunegonde.
 * Contributor**: Sally Yu


 * Literary Device**: oxymoron
 * Text**: "Candide, torn between joy and sorrow, delighted to see his faithful agent again, astonished to see him a slave full of thoughts of finding his mistress, his heart in turmoil and his faculties in confusion, now sat down to eat with Martin (who observed all these goings-on impassively), and in the company of six foreigners who had come to spend Carnival in Venice." (Voltaire 16).
 * Context**: Candid hears from Cacambo that Cunegonde is at Constatinople as a slave, and Cacambo as a slave of a new master. He is confused at how Cunegonde is not with Cacambo, but very far away, and how Cacambo is with a new master.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is oxymoron, because two contradicting words, “joy and sorrow” is combined.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing how Candide feels about Cacambo, because Candide seems to enjoy being with him, but the main goal of being with him is to be with Cunegonde. Therefore, he is satirizing how Candide feels happy, but sad at the same time.
 * Contributor**:Sally Yu