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正确答案：D
解析：文章指出，讽刺文学是通过独特的新视角来吸引读者的喜爱，它在思想上并没有什么创造性。它用一种新的形式将大家熟悉的事物呈现出来。使那些事物似乎是愚蠢的、有害的或受到影响。第一段Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness，its originality of per-spective．Satire rarely ofrers original ideas．Instead，it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists donot offer the world new philosophies．What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspectivethat makes these conditions seem foolish，harmful，or affected．