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'''Satire''' is | [[File:Cat_guarding_geese_c1120_BC_Egypt.jpg|thumb|Drawing on limestone of a scene from a fable, Ancient Egyptian, 19th dynasty, c1120 BC. A cat with a shepherd's crook and a bag over his shoulder guards six geese and a nest of eggs. From the Cairo Museum.]]'''Satire''' is a genre of [[Literature (nonfiction)|literature]], and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule. | ||
Satire is typically used with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement. | |||
Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. | |||
-- | A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm -- "in satire, irony is militant" -- but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, hyperbole, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. | ||
This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack. | |||
== In the News == | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Satire Man.jpg|link=Satire Man|Earliest known photograph of '''Satire Man'''. | |||
File:Trumpie Trump.jpg|link=Trumpie Trump (nonfiction)|[[Trumpie Trump (nonfiction)|Trumpie Trump]] to reporter: "I’m president and you’re not." | |||
File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]'' sets new standard for satire. | |||
File:Euclid Lueneburg ms page 8.jpg|link=Mathematical diagram (nonfiction)|Ancient manuscript is actually [[Mathematical diagram (nonfiction)|secret diary of Euclid]], says supervillain [[Abomynous]]. | |||
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|New form of satire-absorbing agent developed by [[high-energy literature]] researchers. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[Abomynous]] | |||
* [[Exaggeratorium]] - a night club and science museum in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
* [[Satire Man]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[ | * [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]] | ||
== | == External links == | ||
* [ | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire Satire] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Art (nonfiction)]] | |||
[[Category:Satire (nonfiction)]] | |||
Latest revision as of 13:04, 7 October 2021
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule.
Satire is typically used with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.
Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm -- "in satire, irony is militant" -- but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, hyperbole, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.
This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.
In the News
Earliest known photograph of Satire Man.
Trumpie Trump to reporter: "I’m president and you’re not."
That Was the Week That Was sets new standard for satire.
Ancient manuscript is actually secret diary of Euclid, says supervillain Abomynous.
New form of satire-absorbing agent developed by high-energy literature researchers.
Fiction cross-reference
- Abomynous
- Exaggeratorium - a night club and science museum in New Minneapolis, Canada.
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Satire Man
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Satire @ Wikipedia