AP Language: Irony and Satire Flashcards
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| 8480696290 | dramatic irony | 0 | ||
| 8480696291 | verbal irony | when a character's speech is not meant to be taken seriously | 1 | |
| 8480698190 | situational irony | A discrepancy in the setting or situation that is not what you expect | 2 | |
| 8480702369 | socratic irony | Socrates taught his students by pretending to be ignorant about the subjects his students were discussing in order to get them to think on their own - when the arguer ironically takes a position he or she does not actual hold in order to push an argument to its limits | 3 | |
| 8480702370 | direct satire | directly stated by satirists | 4 | |
| 8480706065 | indirect satire | communicated through characters in a narrative | 5 | |
| 8480706068 | horatian satire | This satire characterized by gentle, urbane comedy that corrects through sympathetic laughter | 6 | |
| 8480706066 | juvenalian satire | This type of satire is bitter, angry, contemptuous, and full of indignation | 7 | |
| 8480711334 | ambiguity | when the meaning of something is unclear and it may mean more than one thing | 8 | |
| 8480713606 | caricature | the exaggeration of a physical feature or trait | 9 | |
| 8480716722 | burlesque | the ridiculous exaggeration of language | 10 | |
| 8480716724 | exaggeration | To enlarge, increase, or represenet something beyond normal bounds so that is becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen | 11 | |
| 8480722249 | diminution | taking real life situation and reducing it to make it riduclous and showcase its faults; "reduction" | 12 | |
| 8480738433 | distortion | taking something out of its ordinary surroundings sometimes to reveals its idiocy or inadequacies | 13 | |
| 8480745710 | farce | a narrative in which the ridiculous characters in the situation are exaggerated and the outcomes of the plot are absurd; a comedy | 14 | |
| 8480752666 | incongruity | to present things that are out of place or absurd to their surroundings | 15 | |
| 8480756593 | innuendo | an implied remark that disparages another's reputation | 16 | |
| 8480760089 | invective | a direct insult; a longer version is a diatribe (a rant) | 17 | |
| 8480766596 | knaves and fools | These clowns of satire are exaggerations of our follies; taken to the extreme, their ridiculous behavior still rings true and we see in them something of ourselves (element of farce) | 18 | |
| 8480777554 | malapropism | absurd or humorous mistake of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound | 19 | |
| 8480781868 | oxymoron | words or phrases used together that present a paradox | 20 | |
| 8480784922 | parody | to imitate techniques and/or style of some person, place or thing, mimicking the techniques and or style in order to ridicule the original | 21 | |
| 8480792688 | reduction | to belittle the satirical target, reducing power or stature (Caricature is one way to reduce status, since it makes the target look ridiculous or silly) | 22 | |
| 8480802813 | reversal | to present the opposite of the normal order. - can focus on the order of events or can focus on hierarchical order | 23 | |
| 8480811976 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration, understatement does basically the same thing - it draws attention to the truth | 24 | |
| 8480818808 | satirical purpose | -Force a recognition of common sense -Urge a change in policy -Create an understanding that something is wrong/immoral/illegal or should be | 25 | |
| 8480829325 | satirical target | -person -company/corporation -an idea -social trend/convention | 26 |