AP English Literature Unit 5 Satire Terms Flashcards

8884208350	Absurdity	A state of being rediculas or wildly unreasonable	0
8884208351	Bathos	When a writer or a poet falls into inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions or ideas in an effort to be increasinly emotional or passionate	1
8884208352	Black humor	a comic style that makes light of subjects that are generally considered serious or taboo (death for example)	2
8884208353	Caricature	A character with features or traits that are exagerated so that the character seems rediculas (both written and illustrative)	3
8884208354	Comic juxtaposition	linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together	4
8884208355	Dimunition	a satirical technique reducing the size of something in order that it may be made to appear ludicrous or in order to be closely examined	5
8884208356	Euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	6
8884208357	Farce	A dramaticform marked wholly absurd situations, slapstick, raucous wordplay, and sometimes innuendo	7
8884208358	Horatian Satire	satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty--relatively gentle	8
8884208359	Hyperbole	a figure of speech which involves the exageration of ideas for the sake of emphasis	9
8884208360	Inflation	a common technique of sature where real life situations are exagerrated to a degree that it becomes rediculas and its faults can be seen	10
8884208361	Innuendo	an indirect or a subtle observation about a thing or a person;--usually it is critical, disparaging or salacious in nature	11
8884208362	Invective	speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution--uses abrasive and negative language	12
8884208363	Dramatic Irony	Tension created by the contrast between what a character says or thinks and what the audience or readers know to be true; as a result of this technique, some words and actions in a story or play take on a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters	13
8884208364	Situational Irony	A pointed discrepancy between what seems fitting or expected in a story and what actually happens	14
8884208365	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech that occus when a speaker of character says one things but really means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticable incongruity	15
8884208366	Juvenalian Satire	formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation	16
8884208367	Malapropism	a use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression	17
8884208368	Mock encomium	Praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead	18
8884208369	Oxymoron	A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words	19
8884208370	Parody	A comic or satiric imitation of a particular literary work or style. They range from light hearted imitations to exagerations intended to criticize	20
8884208371	Pun	A play on words that derives its humor from the replacement of one word with another that has a similar pronuncation or spelling but a different meaning--this also can be driven by multiple meaning words	21
8884208372	Purple Prose	prose that is too elaborate or ornate	22
8884208373	Reductio ad absurdum	a manner of arguing something in which one argues for his position by showing the absurdity of the position of his opponent--to reduce an argument to absurdity by drawing the conclusions with logical limits or showing rediculas consequences	23
8884208374	Sarcasm	verbal irony that is used derisively	24
8884208375	Satire	A literary work that uses irony to critique society or an individual	25
8884208376	Understatement	The presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, aweful, good, powerful, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect (opposite of hyperbole)	26
8884208377	Utopianism	an illusionary place that projects the notion of a perfect society to the reader, where ideal conditions are achieved in the material wold and morality is upheld	27
8884208378	Wit	a form of intelligent humor, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usualy funny	28
8884208379	Bathos	An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or rediculas	29