Satire Terms

A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.

• satire
• Horatian satire
• Juvenalian satire
• incongruity

gentle, amused, witty, light-hearted satire.

• Horatian satire
• parody
• pun
• burlesque

harsh, biting satire, full of moral indignation and bitter contempt

• double entendre
• situational irony
• Juvenalian satire
• verbal irony

serious treatment of the frivolous and/or vice versa.

• double entendre
• Horatian satire
• Juvenalian satire
• burlesque

irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

• dramatic irony
• double entendre
• juxtaposition
• situational irony

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

• satire
• incongruity
• dramatic irony
• Juvenalian satire

a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.

• Juvenalian satire
• parody
• verbal irony
• satire

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• juxtaposition
• burlesque
• verbal irony
• incongruity

Something created in order to mock, comment on, or trivialize a certain author, genre, style, or issue in a humorous manner.

• incongruity
• burlesque
• Juvenalian satire
• parody

A figure of speech in which a phrase or set of words is meant to be viewed/understood in two different ways

• situational irony
• Juvenalian satire
• juxtaposition
• pun