Lampoon vs. Satire

Lampoonnoun

A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.

Lampoonverb

To satirize or poke fun at.

Lampoonnoun

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.

Lampoonnoun

Any satire ridiculing or mocking a person, activity, or institution by representing its character or behavior in an exaggerated or grotesque form; the representation may be written, filmed, or performed as a live skit, and may be intended as a severe reproach, or as good-natured humor.

Lampoonverb

To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon.

Lampoonnoun

a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

Lampoonverb

ridicule with satire;

Satirenoun

(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

Satirenoun

(countable) A satirical work.

Satirenoun

Severity of remark.

Satirenoun

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

Satirenoun

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Satirenoun

witty language used to convey insults or scorn;

Satire

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, 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.