A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.

Ex: The Weekend Update segments on SNL

A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."

Ex: That popcorn tasted as salty as the ocean.

Narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament speech or writing; broadly, as representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing.

Ex: The essay had a persuasive style of writing.

The part of a sentence or clause that indicates what it is about.

Ex: The subject of the financial article was the American economy. 

A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

Ex: Men like to hunt. Kaylee likes to hunt.

 Conclusion: Kaylee is a man.