Satire words
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| 3614516813 | Satire | A humorous writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change; a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit | 0 | |
| 3614516814 | What are the purposes of satire? | 1. real-world change or reform. 2. honest re-examination of values 3. development of new goals, attitudes, or perspectives | 1 | |
| 3614516815 | What are the tools of satire? | wit, fantasy, irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, understatement, invective, malapropism, incongruity, puns, double entendre, paradox, hyperbole, meiosis, sarcasm, contradiction, distortion, oxymoron, reversal,ambiguity | 2 | |
| 3614516816 | Why do satirists use wit? | to make readers laugh at their own faluts. They hope that readers will recognize their weaknesses and correct the. It often combines incongruous ideas in a humorous and unexpected way. | 3 | |
| 3614516817 | Why do satirists use fantasy? | to create a world where common sense has collapsed. Thy call attention to social ills by presenting readers with a distorted view of the world. | 4 | |
| 3614516818 | Why do satirist use irony? | to point out discrepancies between appearances and reality and to criticize human weakness | 5 | |
| 3614516819 | Why do satirists use sarcasm? | to ridicule a subject. It is meant to be hurtful. | 6 | |
| 3614516820 | Why do satirists use hyperbole? | to make something look ridiculous or worse than it really is | 7 | |
| 3614516821 | Why do satirists use understatement? | to emphasize the enormity of a problem | 8 | |
| 3614516822 | Invective | Very abusive, usually nonironical language aimed at particular target (i.e. a string of curses). It can be quite funny, but it is the least inventive of the satirist's tools. | 9 | |
| 3614516823 | Caricature | Technique of exaggeration, to achieve a grotesque or ridiculous effect, for a comic and satiric effect. Caricature ludicrously exaggerates the peculiarities or defects of the target. | 10 | |
| 3614516824 | Lampoon | Harsh and personal attack on a very particular, recognizable target, often focusing on the target's character, behavior, or habits | 11 | |
| 3614516825 | Parody | Deliberately seeks to ridicule another style. The write imitates the original very well, pushing it beyound its limits and making it ridiculous | 12 | |
| 3614516826 | Burlesque | Ridiculous exaggeration in language, usually one which makes the discrepancy between the word and the situation or the caricature silly. | 13 | |
| 3614516827 | Mock heroic | Sets up disproportionate and witty distance between the elevated language used to describe an action and the triviality or foolishness of the action. | 14 | |
| 3614516828 | Reductio ad absurdum | The author agrees enthusiastically with the basic attitudes or assumptions he wishes to satirize and, by pushing them to a logically ridulous extreme, exposes the foolishness of the original attitudes and assumptions | 15 | |
| 3614516829 | Double entendre | To turn upside down, outside in, or inside out; to reverse, as in order to , a statement that has two meanings, one of which is dirty or vulgar | 16 | |
| 3614516830 | Horation satires | Humorous, lighthearted jabbing | 17 | |
| 3614516831 | Juvenalian | Harsh, bitter, cruel mocking | 18 | |
| 3614516832 | Meiosis | Reference to something with a name disproportionately lesser than its nature (a kind of litotes). | 19 | |
| 3614516833 | Litote | Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite. | 20 | |
| 3614516834 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows more than the characters | 21 | |
| 3614516835 | Verbal irony | Occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought | 22 | |
| 3614516836 | Situational irony | Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 23 | |
| 3614516837 | Farcical | Absurd; ridiculous . A farce is a comedy which aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humor of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene | 24 | |
| 3614516838 | Dimunition | Lessening; reduction in size | 25 | |
| 3614516839 | Incongruity | Lack of harmony; absurdity; ADJ. incongruous: lacking in harmony; inappropriate | 26 | |
| 3614516840 | Distortion | Taking something out of its ordinary surroundings sometimes reveals its idocy or inadequacies. Distortion unmasks an idea. | 27 | |
| 3614516841 | Reversal | To present the opposite of the normal order, which is a type of distrotion, by reversal gets us to look at what should be by way of contrast | 28 | |
| 3614516842 | Reduction | Look for caricatures or other ways to knock the corrupt and powerful off their self-made pedestals. When a sneaky politician looks clownish in a cartoon, that's reduction. | 29 | |
| 3614516843 | When you are trying to understand satire, what three things should you look for? | Target, purpose, and techniques | 30 |
