Satire is often meant to be funny, but not always. 

Satire is a fairly recent development in society. 

How does satire attempt to improve individuals or society? 

Which of the four strategies of satire refers to imitating another's technique or style?

In the fractured fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin", elements like "gossip pages, talk shows, and beefy security" are absurdly out of place in the standard fairy tale world. Therefore, they are examples of this strategy of satire. 

The movie Shrek employs this strategy of satire when the "valiant" knights desperately run away from the forest's ogre Shrek. 

Jonathon Swift uses this strategy of satire in his essay "A Modest Proposal" when he takes his solution to poverty and hunger to its very extremes. 

When a person says the opposite of what is meant is an example of what kind of irony?

A drastic overstatement or exaggeration

Lessening the importance of an event or moment

Which of the following is not one of the three rhetorical devices

An imitation of something for comic effect or ridicule