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 * Literary Device**: Irony
 * Text**: "Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are; the Dutch fetishes who converted me to their religion tell me every Sunday.../whites and blacks alike."(Voltaire p 52).
 * Context**: The black slave is talking with Candid and Martin how much his suffering.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is irony because the slave compared the human being with other animals, and even worse than them.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing the Inquisition's brutal treatment of people.
 * Contributor**: Peter Kim


 * Literary Device**: Irony
 * Text**: "Since he had an enormous diamond on his finger, .../ he soon had by his side two doctors whom he had not sent for."
 * Context**: Candid is sick and the two doctors are trying to fix his illness.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is an allusion because since the doctors were only attracted at the diamond, they shabby cure Candid and his illness gets worse.(Voltaire p 60)
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** Voltaire is satirizing that all the people trick each when they can obtain money from them.
 * Contributor**: Peter Kim


 * Literary Device**: irony
 * Text**: "As they drew near to the city, they came across a negro stretched out on the ground, iwth no more then half of his clothes left, which is to say a par of blue canvas drawers."
 * Context**: They find a poor black man lying on the ground.
 * Explanation of literary device**: It is ironic as Cacambo and Candide has just came from Eldorado with riches while talking about optimism.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** That even though after they are pleasant and happy, other people are suffering (feudalism)
 * Contributor**: Samuel Han


 * Literary Device**: understatement
 * Text**: "I'd say the actress is atrocious, the actor playing the opposite her is worse."
 * Context**: They are commenting on the actors in the play: Queen Elizabeth
 * Explanation of literary device**: This is an understatement as the play is really famous but the actors and actresses are bad.
 * What is Voltaire satirizing by the use of this device?** That no matter how famous a play is, if the actors itself is bad
 * Contributor**:Samuel Han