Satire: Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;
The rage but not the talent to abuse.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out." Dawn Powell
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful." Molly Ivins
Synonyms: banter, burlesque, caricature, causticity, chaffing, irony, lampoon, lampoonery, mockery, parody, pasquinade, persiflage, play-on, put-on, raillery, sarcasm, send-up, skit, spoof, squib, takeoff, travesty, wit, witticism, backhanded compliment, brickbat, butt*, comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, dig*, disdain, disparagement, dump*, jab, jest, joke, laughingstock, laughter, mockery, object of ridicule, parting shot, pilgarlic, put-down, raillery, ridicule
3 comments:
loll nice. especially about the one that said " she is called doormat". I hate it when women r used as doormat.
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