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  1. Satire | Definition & Examples | Britannica

    Dec 20, 2025 · Satire is an artistic form most often used to censure an individual’s or a group’s shortcomings.

  2. Satire Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    SATIRE meaning: 1 : a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, …

  3. Irony | Definition, Examples, & Types | Britannica

    Nov 11, 2025 · What is satire? How does satire use humor or exaggeration? What types of topics or issues are often covered by satire? How is satire different from regular comedy or jokes?

  4. Satire - Humor, Irony, Parody | Britannica

    Dec 20, 2025 · The 17th-century comedy of Molière sometimes deepens into satire, as with the exposure of religious hypocrisy in Tartuffe or the railing against social hypocrisy by Alceste in …

  5. Political cartoon | Satire, Humor, Criticism | Britannica

    What is satire? How does satire use humor or exaggeration? What types of topics or issues are often covered by satire? How is satire different from regular comedy or jokes?

  6. satire summary | Britannica

    satire, Artistic form in which human or individual vices, folly, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, sometimes with …

  7. Metal | Definition, Characteristics, Types, & Facts | Britannica

    Nov 27, 2025 · Metal, any of a class of substances characterized by high electrical and thermal conductivity as well as by malleability, ductility, and high reflectivity of light. Approximately …

  8. Burlesque | History, Characteristics & Examples | Britannica

    What is satire? How does satire use humor or exaggeration? What types of topics or issues are often covered by satire? How is satire different from regular comedy or jokes?

  9. Satire - Verse, Structure, Humor | Britannica

    Oct 11, 2025 · When satire is spoken of today, however, there is usually no sense of formal specification whatever; one has in mind a work imbued with the satiric spirit—a spirit that …

  10. Satire - Humor, Irony, Criticism | Britannica

    Oct 11, 2025 · The 20th-century American critic Kenneth Burke summed up this paradoxical aspect of satire’s relation with the law by suggesting that the most inventive satire is produced …