Satire Vocabulary

When a character or person says one thing but means the opposite

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• situational irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When the exact opposite of what is expected happens

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When a character believes something and the opposite is true. The audience knows more than the character.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning and leads to confusion and vagueness.

• incongruity

• ambiguous

• contradiction

• subtlety

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

When two statements do not agree with each other

• ambiguity

• incongruity

• contradiction

• subtlety

Delicate hints or clues for the reader in the text; often difficult to perceive or understand, and may foreshadow

• contradiction

• subtlety

• parody

• reversal

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Writing that imitates a literary work in order to illustrate its shortcomings

• contradiction

• paradox

• subtlety

• parody

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To present the opposite of the normal order

• ambiguity

• ambiguous

• reversal

• parody

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Very different from everything around it to the point of being inappropriate to the situation

• reversal

• incongruity

• subtlety

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A means of convincing an audience of the reliable character or credibility of the speaker/writer, or the credibility of the argument

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.SL.9-10.3