satire vocab

Question 1

understandment humor

Answer 1

fielding description of a grossly fat and repulsively ugly Mrs. Slip slop “She was not remarkably handsome”

Question 2

deflation humor

Answer 2

the English professor mispronounces a word or the president slips and bangs his head leaving the helicopter

Question 3

irony

Answer 3

literacy 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 4

invective

Answer 4

name calling, personal Abuse, etc

Question 5

mock encomium

Answer 5

praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead

Question 6

grotesque

Answer 6

creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of all “sick humor: or “black humor”

Question 7

comic juxtaposition

Answer 7

linking together with no commentary items
which normally do not go together; Pope’s line in Rape of the Lock: “Puffs, patches, bibles, and billet-doux”

Question 8

mock epic/ mock heroic

Answer 8

using elevated diction and devices from the
epic or the heroic to deal with low or trivial subjects

Question 9

parody

Answer 9

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

Question 10

inflation

Answer 10

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

Question 11

diminution

Answer 11

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

Question 12

metafiction

Answer 12

fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques