english ap satire terms

Invective

Insulting, abusive, or hightly critical lanuage

Mock-Heroic

(Of a literary work or its style) imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satrize an unheroric subject

Diatribe

A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something

Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects

Parody

An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist or genre with deliber exaggeration for comic effect

Innuendo

An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one

Zeugma

The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold

Ambiguity

An unclear, indefiinite, or equivocal word, expression or meaning

Hyperbole

An extravagant statement of figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity"

Pun

A play on words (comma get it)

Double entendre

Double meaning

Incongruity

Something out of place

Repartee

Quick and witty replies

Lampoon

Publicy criticize (something or someone) by using ridicle, irony or sarcasm

Epigram

Any witty, ingenious or pointed saying tersely expressed

Wit

The abiility to use words in a smart and humourous way

Caricature

(The artof making) a drawing or written or spoken description of someone that usually makes them look silly by taking part of their appearance or character more noticable then it really is