Satire

Lang and comp

Social commentary

Literature which indirectly challenges the rules and behavior of society.

Satire

A technique employed by a writer to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.

Horatian

Type of direct satire, Pokes fun at human foibles with a witty, even indulgent tone.

Juvenalian

A type of direct satire, Denounces sometimes with incentive, human vice and error and sole-man tones.

Angry,casuistic, resentful, personal.

Irony

A situation, or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.

Verbal Irony

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.

Dramatic Irony

An incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what the reader thinks to be true (or between what a character perceives and what the author intends the reader to perceive) .

Situational Irony

A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate.

Socratic Irony

socrates pretended ignorance of a subject to draw knowledge from his students with a question-and-answer device. Socratic irony is a feigning ignorance to achieve some advantage over an opponent.

Juxtaposition

Proximity that highlights contrast.

Understatement

Downplaying somethings size quality or significance.

Diminution

Taking a real life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults - Also a reduction.

Overstatement

Exaggeration of somethings size quality or significance.

Euphemism

Poliute, mild phrases which substitute unpleasant ways of saying something sad or uncomfortable.

Parody

Imitation for comic effect (Deflation).

Mock heroic/ Mock Epic

Using elevated diction and devices from the epic or heroic to deal with law of trivial subjects.

Mockumentary

The office, Best in the show, This is a spinal tap.

Mock Encomium

A text in verse or in prose that praises or pays tribute to an object or summary that is commonly considered ludicrous or harmful.

Anachronism

Placing the idea, invention, item or world in the wrong time period to highlight contrast one era to another.

Caricature

A ludicrous exaggeration of the defects of a person or thing.

Invective

Harsh, Abusive language directed against a person or cause. A tool of anger. (Bitterest of all satire)

Malapropism

A deliberate mispronunciation of a name or term with the intent of poking fun.