Satire Unit Review

when there are two contradicting meanings of the same situation, event, image, sentence, phrase, or story; the difference between expectations and reality

• irony

• invective

• juxtaposition

• inversion

 work that’s created by imitating an existing original work in order to make fun of or comment on an aspect of the original

• farce

• parody

• satire

• encomium

a comedy in which everything is absolutely absurd; usually involves some kind of deception or miscommunication

• parody

• farce

• satire

• grotesque

a figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme

• hyperbole

• verbal irony

• inversion

• malapropism

A reversal of order, form, or another relationship

• inversion

• hyperbole

• understatement

• anachronism

refers to the incorrect use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word, typically with a humorous result

• malapropism

• anachronism

• diminution

• dramatic irony

something or someone that is not in the correct chronological time period

• malapropism

• anachronism

• verbal irony

• invective

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting and humorous effect

• comical juxtaposition

• ironic encomium

• verbal irony

• hyperbolic exaggeration

a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is

• understatement

• hyperbole

• irony

• inversion

occurs when someone of high ranking is momentarily “removed” from their pedestal due to a humorous error

• deflation

• farce

• inversion

• situational irony