Horatian Satire

Mocks common human follies and social issues with the goal of entertaining and offering insightful reflection on human behavior, rather than demanding social change.

Juvenalian Satire

Often uses a tone of moral indignation and outrage. It attacks corruption and hypocrisy in public figures and institutions with the explicit goal of exposing serious wrongdoing and spurring political or societal reform

Menippean Satire

less focused on specific individuals or societal norms than on critiquing broad mental attitudes, worldviews, or belief systems (e.g., facism, racism, classism) and can range in tone from humorous to serious.

Allusion

A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.

Antithesis

A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. The resulting parallelism serves to emphasize opposition of ideas.

Aphorism

A terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle. 

Apostrophe

Directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

Caricature

 A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.

Allegory

The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom.

Diction

Word choice