Satire Vocabulary Flashcards
1
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Persuasion
A
To convince someone to do something
2
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Satire
A
To make fun of a subject hoping for change.
3
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Allegory
A
A poem or story with a hidden message or moral
4
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Ridicule
A
Insult or degrade
5
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Sarcasm
A
To say one thing and mean another
6
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Verbal irony
A
Sarcasm
7
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Situational irony
A
Something that is opposite of what was supposed to happen
8
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Dramatic irony
A
When the audience knows what’s about going to happen before the characters
9
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Parody
A
A mimic of something
10
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Incentive
A
A reward for achieving a certain goal
11
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Understatement
A
Something that is looked at as if it is not as important than it actually is
12
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Hyperbole
A
Exaggeration of words
13
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Tone
A
The attitude of the author to the story
14
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Loaded words
A
Words that have power behind them
