Satire
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ODE
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms

WIT
Mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

4 letters

ALBA

EPIC
Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"

EPOS
A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme

IDYL
A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

POEM
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

SALT
Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

SONG
A distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead"

5 letters

CANSO

DIRGE
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

ELEGY
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead

EPODE

HAIKU
An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

FARCE
Mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

HUMOR
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

IDYLL
A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

LYRIC
The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"

RHYME
A piece of poetry

SLOKA

SQUIB
Firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise

TANKA
A Tibetan religious painting on fabric

TENSO

VERSE
A piece of poetry

IRONY
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

SPOOF
A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

6 letters

PARODY
A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

BALADA

BALLAD
A narrative poem of popular origin

BANTER
Light teasing repartee

COMEDY
A comic incident or series of incidents

DRYWIT

EPOPEE

ESPRIT
Liveliness of mind or spirit

GHAZEL

HUMOUR
The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"

JINGLE
A metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"

MONODY
Music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)

RONDEL
A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

SATIRE
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

SENDUP
A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

SONNET
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

7 letters

BALLADE
A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy

BUCOLIC
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

CARTOON
A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence

CHANSON

ECLOGUE
A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

EPIGRAM
A witty saying

GEORGIC

MOCKERY
Showing your contempt by derision

PASQUIL

PASQUIN

RONDEAU
A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

ROUNDEL
Round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit

SESTINA

TAKEOFF
A departure; especially of airplanes

TENZONE

TRIOLET

VIRELAY

LAMPOON
A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

SARCASM
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

8 letters

AGILEWIT

CLERIHEW
A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"

13 letters

AMOEBEANVERSE

ELEGIACPOETRY

ENGLISHSONNET
A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

ITALIANSONNET
A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

NARRATIVEPOEM

PASTORALELEGY

VERSDESOCIETE

CAUSTICREMARK
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

14 letters

CONCRETEPOETRY

DRAMATICPOETRY

GOLIARDICVERSE

SLAPSTICKHUMOR

SONNETSEQUENCE

TROUBADOURPOEM

15 letters

POLYPHONICPROSE
A rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance

SLAPSTICKHUMOUR

MALICIOUSPARODY

NARRATIVEPOETRY

SATIRICALPOETRY

WICKEDIMITATION

16 letters

HUDIBRASTICVERSE

MOCKHEROICPOETRY

PETRARCHANSONNET
A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

18 letters

METAPHYSICALPOETRY

19 letters

SHAKESPEAREANSONNET
A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg