Definition of Satire

- Satire is the use of irony or sarcasm in exposing or denouncing.

- Satire is a literary composition where human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

- A satire is anything that is making fun of something, basically being sarcastic in order to criticize something that's bigger like societal rules, the government, etc..

- Satire has the shape of fragmentation. In satire, chaos isn't far away. In satire, cities become wastelands; school rooms become blackboard jungles; society becomes a mob or groups of gangs, marriage becomes a mere convenience or disappears altogether; all the signs of civilized life lose their glue, the whole social fabric threatens to come apart.

(Courtesy of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire and http://www.pafaculty.net/joyce/Contents/dubliners/satire/satire.html)