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Sarcasm is the
caustic use of words,
often in a
humorous way, to mock
someone or something.
Sarcasm may
employ ambivalence,
although it is not necessarily...
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punctuation is any form of
notation proposed or used to
denote irony or
sarcasm in
written text.
Written text, in
English and
other languages,
lacks a...
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Multiple Sarcasms is a 2010
American drama film
starring Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino,
Stockard Channing, Dana
Delany and
Mario Van Peebles. It was sold...
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themes in art and film. A
prominent feature of
satire is
strong irony or
sarcasm—"in satire,
irony is militant",
according to
literary critic Northrop Frye—...
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expressly fictional, some are
intended to
produce a
rhetorical effect (such as
sarcasm), and
others attempt to
address a
particular mathematical,
scientific or...
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Scare quotes (also
called shudder quotes or
sneer quotes) are
quotation marks that
writers place around a word or
phrase to
signal that they are using...
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Sarcasms, Op. 17 (Russian: Сарказмы,
pronounced sarkazmy),
initially alternatively entitled Sarcastic Pieces, is a 1914 solo
piano composition by Russian...
- to Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Kafka.
Lolita is
characterized by
irony and
sarcasm; it is not an
erotic novel."
Lance Olsen writes: "The
first 13 chapters...
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device has been
practiced for over two millennia. The
presence of wit or
sarcasm tends to
distinguish non-poetic
epigrams from
aphorisms and adages, which...
- writing, made in
criticism of
someone or something,
often employing humor,
sarcasm, and
appeals to emotion. The
terms diatribe and rant (and, to a lesser...
