AP Language Satire words Flashcards

Satire words

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