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Categories: Satire, Figures of speech, Literary genres, Rhetoric, Articles with short description

sarcasm irony satire caustic remark Ancient Egyptian satire

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn WordNet 3.0

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Witty language used to convey insults or scorn WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Wikipedia

Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Wikipedia

Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody Wikidata

Sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt Wikidata

Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. Wiktionary

An act of sarcasm. Wiktionary

A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. Wiktionary

He used sarcasm to upset his opponent WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Irony is wasted on the stupid WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own WordNet 3.0

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own - Jonathan Swift Open English WordNet

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