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Sarcasm |
extreme form of irony that is cutting, personally insulting, and unmistakable; with intent to insult |
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Invective |
harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause; name-calling |
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Irony/Understatement/Meiosis |
intentional understatement for humor or serious effect |
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Litotes |
a form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite (not bad meaning good) |
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Socratic Irony |
pretend ignorance; may involve asking an apparently innocent question to recognize another persons inconsistencies |
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Cosmic Irony |
the world seems always to hold frustration and emptiness precisely when humans believe they can find fulfillment |
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Caricature |
writing that exaggerates certain INDIVIDUAL qualities of a person and produces burlesque, ridiculous effect (merely personal qualities) |
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Burlesque |
a form of comedy characterised by ridiculous exaggeration and distortion; a serious subject may be treated frivolously; |
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Parody |
a composition imitating another piece (usually serious) designed to ridicule |
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Bathos |
reducing to absurdity (ex: the more sleep one gets, the healthier one is... then one who sleeps for months on end is the most healthy) |
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Versimilitude |
the semblance of truth |
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Satiric Comedy |
a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice or folly, in order to bring our social reform |
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Horation |
gentle, urbane, smiling; aim to correct by broadly sympathetic laughter; topical/ short-lived;little or no ironic diction |
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Juvenalian |
Biting, bitter, angry;points with contempt and indignation to the corruption of human beings and institutions; sarcasm and irony heavy; universal/ long-lived; malice |
