1.+Satire

Satire  1. The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. A literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3. A literary genre comprising such compositions.

1.a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. b. The branch of literature constituting such works, see synonyms at caracature. 2. Irony, sarcasm -  Literary genre or form, although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts.