satire

Satire

Criticism of a person, human nature, events, movements, or institutions with the use of ridicule, sarcasm, with exaggeration, irony and humor

Horatian

Aim to correct by gentle and broadly sympathetic laughter

Juvenalian

Points with contempt and moral indignation to corruption and evil of human beings and institutions

Bathos

Descent from the serious, exalted, or profound to the commonplace, trivial, or just plain silly

Burlesque

Artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, which for the sake of laughters nocks high or low subjects by comparing them to their opposites

butt

the object of the satire (the behaviors institution, etc. which is being ridiculed)

Caricature

Exaggeration of one or more characteristic details to represent a person, often the distortion of a visual aspect, such as a big nose

Damning with faint praise

Intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication because of additional information

Exaggeration

Technique where flaws or absurdities are intentionally overstates and magnified beyond normal bounds to make them appear ridiculous

Hyperbole

A deliberate exaggeration. To create a humorous effect, it is usually distorted to such an extreme that is it ridiculous

Verbal irony

Speech, which implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal/obvious meaning

Situational irony

When the outcome of a work of fiction is opposite from the ending the author has lead

Dramatic Irony

Occurs when a character kept ignorant of facts revealed to the audience

Lampoon

A sharp, often hostile satire directed at a person, a social institution, or the government

Mockery

Imitation with the purpose of making fun of the original

Norm

The moral state the author is trying to educate his readers to become

Understatement

Deliberately representing something as much less as it is

Oxymoron

Idea expressed is 2 contradictory terms in 2 words which are joined

Paradox

A statement which, because of its contradictory nature, seems absurd but which really is well founded

Parody

A literary composition that imitates the characteristic style of a serious work/writer and uses its features to treat trivial, nonsensical material, its aims is mockery

Persona

Masked adopted by a writer, is almost distinct from the author - is the voice chosen by the author for a particular artistic purpose

Pun

Play on words for comic effect involving the use of words which sound similar, or words with 2 meaning

Reversal

To present the opposite of the normal order. Can focus on order of events, and hierarchical order

Sarcasm

Using praise to personally mock someone - form of verbal irony

Tone

The perspective or attitude that the person adopts with regards to a specific character, place, or development