lang satire

Cynicism:

•  A cynic is a person that believes all people are motivated by selfishness; Expressing or exhibiting scorn or bitter mockery

Sardonic:

• scornfully or cynically mocking

  • both cynicism and the sardonic stem from a deep sense of delusion

  • sardonic would rather weep than laugh; his laughter is on the verge of anger, bitter laughter

Invective:

•  the anger the sardonic manages to keep under control burst forth from the invective

  • extreme of satiric spectrum; direct and unremitting attack on its subject.

  • sometimes comes to abuse and name calling

Wit:

• ften combines incongruous ideas in a humorous and unexpected way.

  • EXAMPLE: Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended. -Benjamin Franklin

Ridicule:

• Good tempered and under control; Must confine itself to lighter things

Irony:

• The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Sarcasm:

•  may use mocking praise to indicate the opposite meaning. Essentially incidental and verbal; More crude than irony, more blunt; Sometimes not recognized in written form.