Genre
Satire
From Latin satura: a mixed dish. A major genre from Horace and Juvenal onward. English satire flourished in the Restoration and 18th century as a vehicle for political and moral critique.
Definition
The use of irony, wit, exaggeration, and mockery to expose and criticise human vices, follies, and social abuses.
Example
Pope's The Dunciad (1728–43); Dryden's 'Mac Flecknoe'; Swift's verse satires; Byron's Don Juan.