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| 15426890119 | Horatian Satire | Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. | 0 | |
| 15426890120 | Juvenalian Satire | any bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessimism | 1 | |
| 15426891054 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 2 | |
| 15426892538 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 3 | |
| 15426892539 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 4 | |
| 15426893417 | burlesque | literary work that seeks to ridicule by grotesque exaggeration | 5 | |
| 15426894436 | double entendre | a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent. | 6 | |
| 15426895844 | Incongruity | a satirical technique that shows that an object is out of place by comparing it to it's surroundings. Incongruity uses oxymoron, metaphors, and irony to make these comparisons | 7 | |
| 15426901693 | malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | 8 | |
| 15426901694 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 9 | |
| 15426902940 | travesty | trivializes the dignity of its subject by using light effects. Anything that takes itself too seriously is vulnerable | 10 | |
| 15426906471 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 11 | |
| 15426907832 | Reversal | subverting a situation to present an inversion of how things really are back to the reader. It usually involves a story which presents the opposite of normalcy (as we understand it) in order to make a satirical point about it. | 12 | |
| 15426912564 | epigram | a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation | 13 | |
| 15426912948 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 14 |
