Satire and Parody Forms

a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos

in which the stock character of a fool was used as an allegory to satirize the contemporary society

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.

A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature.

Travesty is a comical or satirical literary genre, commonly a poetry, in which the plot of a well-known myth or a serious literary work is retold in a comical form.

Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody.

Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock the elevated style of common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature.

Drinkers Masses, to include Gamblers Masses (Latin: Missa Potatorum, Officium Lusorum), was a genre of medieval Latin poetry which parodied the Roman Catholic Latin Mass in order to make fun of drinking and gambling monks and clerics.

Texts were written in a humorous, satirical sermon-style with the purpose of educating the masses.

Vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws.

Described as a satirical celebration of traditional masculinity, the genre has been criticized for allegedly promoting sexism and misogyny.

Political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics.

News satire relies heavily on irony and deadpan humor.

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

Libel is usually expressly political, and bolder and coarser than satire.

They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes generally critical or mocking of the church and nobility.

Estate satire is a genre of writing from 14th-century medieval literary works.