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Vonnegut's satire in 'Slaughterhouse-Five' is dark yet absurd, often focused on war and human folly, utilizing science fiction for societal criticism. Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' uses whimsical and ironic humor to explore themes of absurdity in the human condition and bureaucratic inefficiency.

Swift uses biting satire and irony, targeting societal and governmental flaws, often through allegory such as in 'Gulliver's Travels'. Twain employs wit and regional dialect to ridicule social attitudes, including racism in 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita' combines supernatural elements with political satire to critique Soviet society. Pratchett's 'Discworld' series is a satirical fantasy world that parodies real-world subjects from technology to religion.

Wolfe uses a 'New Journalism' approach to satire, blending fact with fiction in works like 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', which provides social commentary on New York City's elite. Sedaris employs a more personal and anecdotal style in essays like 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', often satirizing his own experiences and societal norms.

Lewis's 'Main Street' and 'Babbitt' are poignant satires on American middle-class and consumerist culture. Waugh uses black comedy and sharp irony in works like 'A Handful of Dust' to lampoon the British aristocracy and modernity.

Juvenal's Roman satires are known for their moral indignation and attack on vice and folly. Horace's satires are more measured, poking fun at human weaknesses with a tone of ironic amusement.

Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and '1984' are grim satires of totalitarianism using bleak realism and allegory. Huxley's 'Brave New World' satirizes consumerism and the loss of individuality through a dystopian future dependent on technology and hedonism.

Voltaire's 'Candide' satirizes religious hypocrisy and optimism with a sharp, witty narrative. Dryden specialized in satirical poetry, with 'Absalom and Achitophel' focusing on political satire through biblical allegory.

Wodehouse's Jeeves stories are light-hearted satires of the British upper class, characterized by a playful tone and absurd situations. Amis's 'Lucky Jim' uses bitter comedy to critique academia and post-war British society.

Heller's 'Catch-22' is a satirical novel criticizing the absurdities of war and bureaucracies with a cyclical, non-linear narrative. Kubrick, while known for filmmaking, infused 'Dr. Strangelove' with satirical elements targeting Cold War politics and nuclear war using dark humor and irony.

Southern's 'Dr. Strangelove' screenplay is a fierce satire of Cold War politics and military rationality. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is a gonzo journalism piece crossing boundaries of fact and fiction to critique the American Dream and 1970s society.

Wilde's witty dialogue and dramatic irony in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' satirizes Victorian norms and the upper class. Austen employs subtler satire through free indirect discourse in 'Pride and Prejudice', to criticize class structure and marriage conventions.

Pope's satirical style in 'The Rape of the Lock' involves heroic couplets for mock-epic satire aimed at the pettiness of the aristocracy. Parker utilizes short, sardonic poems and stories to comment on social issues and the human condition in early 20th-century America.

Rabelais uses bawdy humor and exaggeration in 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' to mock intellectual pretensions and monastic orders. Cervantes employs parody and metafiction in 'Don Quixote' to critique chivalric romances and the changing Spanish society.