Quizlet Satire vocabulary

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  1. dramatic irony: occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that the character does not know
  2. emotional appeal: appeals to one's feelings
  3. ethical appeal: appeals to one's sense of right and wrong
  4. exaggeration: to enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous
  5. hyperbole: wildly extravagant exaggeration; overstatement
  6. incongruity: to present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to surroundings
  7. logical appeal: appeals to one's sense of reason
  8. parody: to imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing
  9. persuasion: convincing someone to do or believe something; winning them over to a desired belief or action
  10. reversal: to present in the opposite of normal order
  11. sarcasm: a kind of cutting irony in which praise is used tauntingly to indicate opposite in meaning
  12. satire: a type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
  13. situational irony: what actually happens is opposite of what is expected or appropriate
  14. understatement: opposite of exaggeration; a statement that expresses a fact too weakly or less emphatically than it should
  15. verbal irony: when the speaker or writer says one thing but means something very different--often opposite of what is said