Satire Quiz

A form of literature that uses irony, sarcasm, parody, hyperbole, and other methods of ridicule and humor to criticize human institutions and human folly

• pathos

• satire

• ethos

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

When what is said is the opposite of what is meant

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When the appearance of things is opposite to the reality

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When what a character says or thinks is not what the reader, audience, or other characters know to be true

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A bitter or cutting speech, intended to wound a person’s feelings.  It comes from a Greek word meaning to tear flesh

• satire

• Juvenalian

• sarcasm

• Horatian

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A figure of speech that employs exaggeration in order to make the actual meaning of the moment clearer

• understatement

• satire

• parody

• hyperbole/

  overstatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A figure of speech in which what is actually meant is expressed by lessening or negating the full significance of the moment

• understatement

• sarcasm

• parody

• hyperbole/

  overstatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

An imitation of the style of an author or work for comic effect and ridicule

• irony

• Juvenalian

• parody

• Horatian

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A type of satire that provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter or even angry and criticizes corruption or incompetence with scorn and outrage

• Horatian

• irony

• sarcasm

• Juvenalian

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A type of satire that is playfully amusing. It seeks to correct vice with gentle laughter and understanding

• Horatian

• sarcasm

• parody

• Juvenalian

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6