the use of ridicule or scorn, often in a humorous or witty way, to expose vices and follies. a literary example of such ridicule or scorn.
a literary tone or work used to make fun of human vice or weakness often with the hope or intent of changing or correcting the behavior of the subject of the satiric attack
mockery that stresses human faults and weaknesses.
a play in which abuses, follies, stupidities, vices are ridiculed. Example: "If Men Played Cards as Women Do," a satire by George S. Kaufman, 4m.
Plays which mock or make fun of certain sections of society.
11,12 A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.
Making fun of something with humor and wit for the purpose of improving it. Satire may be offensive, but generally, when done in the right spirit, the people it makes fun of should not be offended. But they might be.
a work that humorously criticizes the negative characteristics of a person, organization, or thing.
A literary work in which vices, follies, stupidities, abuses, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt.
1. n. the use of irony, sarcasm and humour to make a subject ridiculous and to make fun of it; 2. a novel, story, etc. in which this is done [ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a satire of 18th century England
Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Satire is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. A classical form, satire is found in the verse of Alexander Pope or Samuel Johnson, the plays of Ben Jonson or Bernard Shaw, and the novels of Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, or Joseph Heller.
a narrative where irony and exaggeration are used for a humorous portrayal.
A humorous attack on accepted conventions of society, holding up human vices to ridicule.
A play or other literary work that ridicules social follies, beliefs, religions, or human vices, almost always in a lighthearted vein. Satire is not usually a lasting theatre form, as summed up by dramatist George S. Kaufman's classic definition: "Satire is what closes on Saturday night."
witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
a humorous work that uses one thing to make fun of something else, like Weird Al Yankovic's "Like a Surgeon
a piece of writing in which the subject is exposed to ridicule of some kind, usually in attempts to provoke or prevent a change
a poem which holds up to scorn and ridicule wickedness, folly, or stupidity
biting wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose vice or folly; also: a literary work having these quailities
Humor that ridicules human vices.EXAMPLE
ridiculing stupidity, vice, folly through exaggeration and humor
A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society. Satire may be gently witty, mildly abrasive, or bitterly critical, and it often uses exaggeration for effect.
Mocking humour aimed at making a moral point.
The use of visual bisociation for the purpose of exposing folly, vice or stupidity through visual irony, derision or caustic wit.
Exposing human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
A literary or dramatic genre whose works, such as Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels , attack and ridicule human behavior.
humour used to criticize or ridicule people, the human condition, institutions or a nation.
satira or satura 'satire, poetic medley'; ¿Ø¨ë¡NÃÕ¿Ø): Literature that ridicules vices and follies.
An ironic literary creation detailing the defeat of decency and virtue and the triumph of folly or vice. The work may utilize any literary form  either fictional or nonfictional  relying heavily upon parody, paradox, and anti-climax, and is usually infused with wit and high spirits. Because of its mix of jaunty vigor and bad news, there is no evident catharsis, the works being open-ended and disjunct. The implication at the close is that things will continue to get worse. See Satire: A Definition.
A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoing of individuals, groups, institution, or humanity in general.
Writing that uses humor, often mocking, to call attention to stupidity or injustice and inspire social change. Satirists call attention to the foibles of groups, institutions, and bureaucracies rather than of individual people.
A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule. The satirist aims to reduce the practices attacked by laughing scornfully at them--and being witty enough to allow the reader to laugh, also. Ridicule, irony, exaggeration, and several other techniques are almost always present. The satirist may insert serious statements of value or desired behavior, but most often he relies on an implicit moral code, understood by his audience and paid lip service by them. The satirist's goal is to point out the hypocrisy of his target in the hope that either the target or the audience will return to a real following of the code. Thus, satire is inescapably moral even when no explicit values are promoted in the work, for the satirist works within the framework of a widely spread value system. Many of the techniques of satire are devices of comparison, to show the similarity or contrast between two things. A list of incongruous items, an oxymoron, metaphors, and so forth are examples.
a work of art, literature or music that mocks or ridicules a popular idea or public figure by reduction to absurdity.
The literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward to attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation. Example: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel, especially Book IV, is a satire on the human race.
A poem, now occasionally a prose composition, in which prevailing vices or follies are held up to ridicule.
a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure.
is a literary technique that attacks foolishness by making fun of it. Most good satires work through a "fiction" that is clearly transparent. Will Ferguson presents Canada's "Black Cliffs of Sudbury" as being equivalent or even preferable to England's White Cliffs of Dover when they obviously are not; he simply uses this satiric approach to highlight the ugliness of Sudbury. Setting
is a work that uses ridicule, humor, and wit to criticize and provoke change in human nature and institutions. There are two major types of satire: "formal" or "direct" satire speaks directly to the reader or to a character in the work; "indirect" satire relies upon the ridiculous behavior of its characters to make its point. Formal satire is further divided into two manners: the "Horatian," which ridicules gently, and the "Juvenalian," which derides its subjects harshly and bitterly. Example: Huckleberry Finn has a lot of social satire because of its portrayal of characters like the King, Duke and others.
a work that is written to make fun of something or someone, usually ot help improve a situation.
the ridiculing of customs or mores, usually comic in tone; may have a purgative or a corrective intent.
a genre or mode that exposes and ridicules human vice and folly. Its characters are usually braggarts, bullies, shady tricksters, and scalawags--often detestible and seldom commendable or sympathetic. Examples: Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Orwell's Animal Farm.
Satire (lat. medley, dish of colourful fruits) is a technique used in drama, fiction, journalism, and occasionally in poetry, the graphic arts, the performing arts and other . Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a clever manner.