1. SATIRE-A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
2. IRONY-A pretense of ignorance of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.
3. ANALOGY-Inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will prob. agree in others.
4. FORESHADOWING-To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.