Satire + Rhetorical Vocab

Question 1

Satire

Answer 1

To ridicule someone/something, to look ridiculous, to embarrass + humble

Question 1

Juvenalian

Answer 1

Attacks error, critisism

Question 2

Horatian

Answer 2

Amused + Witty

Question 3

Modest

Answer 3

Moderate or humble to estimate one’s importance - to not boast or brag : not egotistical

Question 4

Importune

Answer 4

To beg, urge, or solicit persistently

Question 5

Sustenance

Answer 5

Supporting life and health

Question 6

Prodigious

Answer 6

Enormous in size

Question 7

Deplorable

Answer 7

Causes grief or distress

Question 8

Expedient

Answer 8

Useful in a particular situation

Question 9

Raiment

Answer 9

Clothing

Question 10

Enumerate

Answer 10

Counting: to list in a story

Question 11

Deference

Answer 11

Respectful

Question 12

Repine

Answer 12

Complain

Question 13

Parsimony

Answer 13

Stingey

Question 14

Tenant

Answer 14

A person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office: for sometime

Question 15

Mockery

Answer 15

To ridicule something

Question 16

Mock heroic

Answer 16

To poke fun at something heroic-related, exaggerate it

Question 17

Grotesque

Answer 17

Laughter between horror

Question 18

Parody

Answer 18

Mocking of a specific/known person, place, or event (think of SNL skit)

Question 19

Overstatement

Answer 19

Exaggerating something to make it seem bigger

Question 20

Understatement

Answer 20

Exaggerating something to make it seem smaller

Question 21

Caricature

Answer 21

Form of Overstatement

Question 22

Irony

Answer 22

A difference between what one says or does and what is meant or expected (includes sarcasm).