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  2. Invective - Wikipedia

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    The "genre of invective" or "vituperatio" in Latin is a classical literary form used in Greek and Roman polemical verse as well as in prose. Its primary context is as rhetoric . The genre of vituperatio belongs to the genus demonstrativum , which is composed of the elements of praise and blame.

  3. Injective function - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it follows from the definition that is injective. There are multiple other methods of proving that a function is injective. For example, in calculus if f {\displaystyle f} is a differentiable function defined on some interval, then it is sufficient to show that the derivative is always positive or always negative on that interval.

  4. Libel (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Libel is a verse genre primarily of the Renaissance, descended from the tradition of invective in classical Greek and Roman poetry. Libel is usually expressly political, and balder and coarser than satire. Libels were generally not published but circulated among friends and political partisans in manuscript.

  5. List of poems by Catullus - Wikipedia

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    The "Type" column is color-coded, with a green font indicating poems for or about friends, a magenta font marking his famous poems about his Lesbia, and a red font indicating invective poems. The "Addressee(s)" column cites the person to whom Catullus addresses the poem, which ranges from friends, enemies, targets of political satire, and even ...

  6. Progymnasmata - Wikipedia

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    Invective (psogos) Invective opposes commonplace. It attacks a specific, named individual, usually a political or cultural figure. Comparison (synkrisis)

  7. Burlesque - Wikipedia

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    Burlesque on Ben-Hur, c. 1900. A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. [1]

  8. Oy vey - Wikipedia

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    Sign on the Williamsburg Bridge leaving Brooklyn. Oy vey (Yiddish: אױ װײ) is a Yiddish phrase expressing dismay or exasperation. Also spelled oy vay, oy veh, or oi vey, and often abbreviated to oy, the expression may be translated as "oh, woe!"

  9. Menckeniana: A Schimpflexikon - Wikipedia

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    Here there is room only to offer some salient specimens of this anti-Mencken invective—mainly single sentences or phrases, torn from their incandescent context. Some were chosen for their wit—for there are palpable hits among them!—, some for their blistering ferocity, and some for their charming idiocy.