satiric terms

Question 1

Understatement

Answer 1

ex:”she was not remarkably handsome”

Question 2

mock encomium

Answer 2

Praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead

Question 3

inflation

Answer 3

Taking a real life situation and blowing it out of proportion to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults

Question 4

parody

Answer 4

Mimicking the style and/or techniques of something or someone else

Question 5

invective

Answer 5

name calling, personal abuse, etc

Question 6

irony

Answer 6

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

Question 7

grotesque

Answer 7

Creating a tension between laughter and horror version; the essence of all “sick humor” or “black humor”

Question 8

mock heroic

Answer 8

Using elevator diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trivial subjects

Question 9

diminution

Answer 9

Taking a real life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous and showcase its faults

Question 10

comic juxtaposition

Answer 10

Linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together