Group+4+C

Example 1
 * Literary Device**: hyperbole
 * Text:** “Candide, whose blood turned cold.” (page 38)
 * Context:** Candide is angry about baron’s prejudiced thoughts that Cunegonde should marry a high-class man, instead of Candide.
 * Explanation of literary device:** It is hyperbole because blood cannot literally turn “cold”, unless the person is dead. It is used to show Candide’s anger.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing people’s fixed idea and their greed of trying to get married to a person in higher social rank, or at least in the same social rank as theirs’.
 * Contributor:** Jasmine Suk

Example 2 (page 40) Voltaire is satirizing that sometimes, animals can be better or can be same as humans. Since, everyone knows that apes are not equal to humans, Voltaire is trying to suggest that even the apes, who are unable to speak, could be better than humans.
 * Literary Device:** Irony
 * Text:** “After all, they are one-quarter human, just as I am one-quarter Spanish.”
 * Context:** Candide killed two apes because he thought that the two girls were being chased by them.
 * Explanation of literary device:** It is ironic because Cacambo is equalizing human(himself) and apes by saying that he is one-quarter Spanish and the apes are one-quarter human. Although, apes are the most similar-to-human animals, they cannot be related to one-quarter Spanish, which is a complete human state.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?**
 * Contributor:** Jasmine Suk

Example 1
 * Literary Device **: irony
 * Text **: They entered a very modest house, for the door was merely of silver and the panelling in the apartments merely of gold…with mere rubies and emeralds; … more than justified its bare simplicity (Voltaire 46).
 * Context **: Candide and Cacambo are visiting the house of the most learned man in Eldorado.
 * Explanation of literary device **: It is irony because silver, gold, rubies, and emeralds are described as small and worthless, when they are actually very valuable and prized.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device? ** Voltaire is satirizing extravagance and how people waste their money while not knowing the value of it or how much they’re actually spending.
 * Contributor **: Christine

Example 2
 * Literary Device **: irony
 * Text **: ‘we are all of us priests. The King and the heads of each family sing solemn hymns of thanksgiving every morning...’ ‘What! You have no monks instructing and disputing, and governing and intriguing, and having everyone burned alive who is not of their opinion?’ (Voltaire 47).
 * Context **: Candid and the old learned man in Eldorado are talking about religion in Eldorado.
 * Explanation of literary device **: It is irony because when the man is talking, it seems like Voltaire is fond of religion, but according to what Candide says, religion seems to be cruel and violent.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device? ** Voltaire is satirizing Christianity and how people are mistreated in the religious community.
 * Contributor **: Christine