Types of Satire & Satiric Devices
Types of Satire & Satiric Devices
There are two types of satire: Horatian and Juvenalian
Horatian satire is: tolerant, witty, wise and self-effacing
Juvenalian satire is: angry, caustic, resentful, personal
Satiric Devices
1. Humor
A. exaggeration: the formalized walk of Charlie Chaplin, the facial and body contortions of Jim Carrey
B. understatement: Fielding’s description of a grossly fat and repulsively ugly Mrs. Slipslop: “She was not remarkably handsome.”
C. deflation: the English professor mispronounces a word, the President slips and bangs his head leaving the helicopter, etc.
D. linguistic games: malapropisms (ex. Jenna Jenna Bo Benna), weird rhymes, etc.
E. surprise: twist endings, unexpected events
2. Irony: Literary device in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does, and what one means or what is generally understood.
a. Verbal irony – A character says one thing but really means the opposite (sarcasm).
b. Dramatic irony – This occurs when the reader or audience understands more about the events of a story than a character.
c. Situational irony – This occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
3. Invective: name calling, personal abuse, etc.
4. Mock Encomium: praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead
5. Grotesque: creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of all “sick humor: or “black humor”
6. Parody: mimicking the style and/or techniques of something or someone else
7. Inflation: taking a real-life situation and blowing it out of proportion to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults
8. Diminution: taking a real-life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults
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