Sneering disapproval often expressed as praise; i.e., someone who falls may be praised for his gracefulness.
What is Sarcasm?
100
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is Parody?
100
This occurs when actions or events have the opposite result from what is expected or what is intended.
What is Situational Irony?
100
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
What is Understatement?
100
Speech that may be directed toward an individual, cause, idea, or system that attacks or denounces it.
What is Invective?
200
the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior.
What is Ridicule?
200
A short saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
What is Epigram?
200
This occurs when the audience (of a movie, play, etc.) understands something about a character's actions or an event but the characters do not.
What is Dramatic irony?
200
Joke about or critical of oneself, especially humorously so.
What is Self-deprecating?
200
A reversal of order, form, or another relationship.
What is Inversion?
300
Grimly mocking or cynical
What is Sardonic?
300
Literary art form that ridicules human folly or vice hoping to correct it.
What is Satire?
300
When words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean.
What is Verbal Irony?
300
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
300
A type of direct satire which pokes fun at human foibles with a witty, even indulgent, tone. It aims to correct through gentle and sympathetic laughter.
What is Horatian satire?
400
A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
What is Caricature?
400
A mode of expression intended to arouse amusement; suggests the power to evoke laughter by remarks showing verbal felicity or ingenuity and swift perception especially of the incongruous.
What is Wit?
400
This is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is Irony?
400
Figure of speech is used to imply that a statement is not literal and actually humorous
What is Tongue-in-cheek?
400
Culture of origin of the concept of satire.
What is Roman?
500
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
What is Facetious?
500
A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
What is Farce?
500
This is a statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time.
What is Paradox?
500
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite.
What is Litotes?
500
A type of direct satire which is biting, bitter, and angry. It points with contempt and moral indignation to the corruption and evil of human beings and institutions.