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1) Caricature 2) Farce 3) Irony 4) Lampoon 5) Parody 6) Sarcasm
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File:Punch.jpg|thumb|1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary, social, and political scene. {Literature}{Performing arts} Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up ...
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• (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. • (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
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Mocking commentaries on social, political and/or economic policies. Satires are usually directed at the body politic (i.e., institutions) but can include scathing reflections on personalities as well
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(from the article `Ariosto, Ludovico`) During this period, from 1517 to 1525, he composed his seven satires (titled Satire), modeled after the Sermones (satires) of Horace. The first ...
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artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ... [19 related articles]
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a play in which abuses, follies, stupidities, vices are ridiculed. Example: 'If Men Played Cards as Women Do,' a satire by George S. Kaufman, 4m.
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Genre of literary or dramatic work that ridicules human pretensions or exposes social evils. Satire is related to parody in its intention to mock, but satire tends to be more subtle and to mock an...
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1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. ... 2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. ... Synonym: Lampoon, sarcasm, irony, ridicule, p...
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An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of w
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Sat'ire noun [ Latin satira , satura , from satura (sc. lanx ) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, from satur full of food, sated, from sat , satis , enough: confer French satire
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Literature which mocks human weaknesses, social circumstances, and so on by using irony and sarcasm. Its basic means is exaggeration. It always takes on humorous form, but is usually intended to criticise and hurt people. It means 'diminishing' a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement or contempt.
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a play in which sarcasm, irony, and ridicule are used to expose or attack folly or pretension in society.
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A literary device to make fun of or mock something.
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mockery that stresses human faults and weaknesses.
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a literary work which belittles or savagely attacks its subject. A distinction is sometimes made between direct and indirect satire.
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Art holding vice or folly up to ridicule, or lampooning individuals through the use of irony or sarcasm. -- L.V.
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Genre of literary or dramatic work that ridicules human pretensions or exposes social evils. Satire is related to parody in its intention to mock, but satire tends to be more subtle and to mock an attitude or a belief, whereas parody tends to mock a particular work (such as a poem) by imitating its s...
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A type of comedy that belittles its subject by evoking attitudes of amusement, scorn, or indignation. Satire uses laughter not as an end in itself but as a weapon: satire is justified as a corrective or means of reform. Satire is therefore didactic rather than mimetic. Problems in creating satire: (1) balancing anger and humor, or balancing comedy ...
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a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.; humor or a literary work that shows the weaknesses or flawed qualities of a person, government, society, etc.
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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[Literary terms] witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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[Intelligent words] witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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