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Satire + Rhetorical Vocab Flashcards

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Satire

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

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Juvenalian

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Attacks error, critisism

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Horatian

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Amused + Witty

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Modest

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

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Importune

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To beg, urge, or solicit persistently

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Sustenance

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Supporting life and health

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Prodigious

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Enormous in size

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Deplorable

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Causes grief or distress

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Expedient

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Useful in a particular situation

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Raiment

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Clothing

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Enumerate

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Counting: to list in a story

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Deference

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Respectful

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Repine

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Complain

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Parsimony

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Stingey

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Tenant

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

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Mockery

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To ridicule something

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Mock heroic

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To poke fun at something heroic-related, exaggerate it

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Grotesque

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Laughter between horror

18
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Parody

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

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Overstatement

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Exaggerating something to make it seem bigger

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Understatement

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Exaggerating something to make it seem smaller

21
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Caricature

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Form of Overstatement

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Irony

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

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Satire + Rhetorical Vocab (1 decks)

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