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  2. Satire - Wikipedia

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    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]

  3. Menippean satire - Wikipedia

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    The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities. [1] It has been broadly described as a mixture of allegory , picaresque narrative, and satirical commentary. [ 2 ]

  4. Humor styles - Wikipedia

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    Humor has been shown to be a personality characteristic that remains relatively stable over time. [2] Humor is sometimes viewed as a one-dimensional trait. However, individuals seem to differ in the ways in which they use humor in their everyday lives, and different styles of humor seem to have different outcomes.

  5. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    The script-based semantic theory of humor (SSTH) was introduced by Victor Raskin in "Semantic Mechanisms of Humor", published 1985. [40] While being a variant on the more general concepts of the Incongruity theory of humor (see above), it is the first theory to identify its approach as exclusively linguistic.

  6. On TikTok, 'satire' doesn't mean what you think it means - AOL

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    While the hashtag #satire (it has 3.2 billion views) is used constantly on the platform, . most of the videos in this category don't fall into the category of criticism or social commentary.

  7. Humorism - Wikipedia

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    Phlegm was associated with all phlegmatic nature, thought to be associated with reserved behavior. [34] The phlegm of humorism is far from phlegm as it is defined today. Phlegm was used as a general term to describe white or colorless secretions such as pus, mucus, saliva, or sweat. [ 26 ]

  8. Satire (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    Film or television satire may be of the political, religious, or social variety.Works using satire are often seen as controversial or taboo in nature, with topics such as race, class, system, violence, sex, war, and politics, criticizing or commenting on them, typically under the disguise of other genres including, but not limited to, comedies, dramas, parodies, fantasies and/or science fiction.

  9. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Other critics, such as Duckworth, contend that Austen's heroines "support and maintain an inherited structure of values and behavior", displaying a version of Christian stoicism. He emphasizes that Austen's novels highlight the dangers of individualism; her heroines emerge from isolation and despair to be reinstated into society. [ 162 ]