| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Flyting | Satire began with these "Word Duals", Roman tradition, improvised, rhythmical, personal, held in public |
| Invective | Formal Angry Speech |
| Lampoon | Attack on someones appearance or character, informal |
| Behavior | the purpose of satire is to make someone/-thing change it's ___________________. |
| destroy | the purpose of invective/ lampoon is to __________________. |
| Romance | Story of WISH FULFILLMENT |
| Comedy | Story of REINTEGRATION (of the family, social order, of society.) |
| Tragedy | the story of DISINTEGRATION (a person separated from their family, forced out of social order, broke apart.) |
| Satire | the story of FRAGMENTATION (chaos, wastelands, society becomes a mob, marriage and other institutions lose their meaning, civilized life and social fabric threatens to come apart.) |
| Juvenalian | Roman; bitter, mean spirited; The speaker attacks wicked behavior. |
| Horation | Roman; light-hearted; satine in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. |
| Romans | ________________ formalized satire in to a distinct genre. |
| Burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of comic imitation. |
| Parody | A composition that imitates the serious manner of a particular work. |
| Farce | A form of humor based on exaggerated improbable things, involves rapid shifts in emotion/ action. |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Invective | speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person |
| Lampoon | a public attack on someones personal appearance/ behaviors |
| Litotes | the writer uses a negative to create an effect, type of understatement |
| travesty | switched clothing |
| understatement | the opposite of exaggeration, "I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw" |
| wit | designed to make the audience laugh, the ability to make humourous or clever remarks |
| Pun | cleaver and intentional play on words, humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more meanings |
| Spoonerism | a transposition of two or more letters/ words. "Buck Foston" |
| Malapropism | misusing words to create a comic effect or characterize the speaker as being too confused, ignorant, flustered. |
| mock epic | a long narrative poem that lightly parodies or mimics the conventions of classical epic. Whitman |
| double entendre | a statement that has two meannings, one of which is suggestive or improper |
| dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't |
| situational irony | expect something but the opposite occurs |
| verbal irony | saying one thing and meaning another |
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