what is the definition of satire?

Answer 1

Satire mean amusing speech or writing that show how silly or wrong something is.
Eg: The is satire on modern American life.*

Answer 2

Satire (lat. medley, dish of colourful fruits) is a technique used in drama and the performing arts, fiction, journalism, and occasionally in poetry and the graphic arts. Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the primary purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a witty manner.

Answer 3

Satire (lat. medley, dish of colourful fruits) is a technique used in drama and the performing arts, fiction, journalism, and occasionally in poetry and the graphic arts. Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the primary purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a witty manner.

Answer 4

a technique used in drama and the performing arts, fiction, journalism, and occasionally in poetry and the graphic arts. Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the primary purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a witty manner.

Answer 5

A Satire exposes the human folly by word play of subtle humour or irony.

Answer 6

1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

Synonyms 1. See irony1. 2, 3. burlesque, caricature, parody, travesty. Satire, lampoon refer to literary forms in which vices or follies are ridiculed. Satire, the general term, often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak person, and usually implies moral judgment and corrective purpose: Swift's satire of human pettiness and bestiality. Lampoon refers to a form of satire, often political or personal, characterized by the malice or virulence of its attack: lampoons of the leading political figures

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Answer 7

Satire is when someone or something is imitated, usually in a politically, or socially unflattering manner. Satire is Saturday Night Live, or Mad TV.

Answer 8

It is a literary device or style of criticizing something or character trait of somebody with a tongue in the cheek.

This is an example of satire:

I once heard a story about a landlord. Once he fell into a river and struggled for a long time, refusing the help of others who were shouting "Give me your hand," until at last someone said, "Take my hand." Then he was pulled out of the river.

Answer 9

A Satire exposes the human folly by word play of subtle humour or irony.
itz a piece of writing makin fun of ppl
ridicule, cutting comment

Answer 10

It's an exaggeration of something but at the same time, it's not because it's so true.