AP - Satire Flashcards

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