Satirical Writing
Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose an can quite often be a form of constructive social criticism, where wit is used to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
Care however must be taken to create a piece of work that is not “ over the top” offensive and inaccurate, thus causing offence and taking away the humour, instead creating hatred aor aggravation.

The Four Techniques of Satire are:

  • Exaggeration. The first step to crafting a successful satire is figuring out what you want to exaggerate.
  • Incongruity.
  • Reversal.
  • Parody.

Exaggeration:
The first step to crafting a successful satire is figuring out what you want to exaggerate. This can be subtle and on a smaller scale, such as in character depictions or in a character’s inner world, or it can be as full-on as exaggerating settings, even the whole narrative scenario itself. 

Incongruity:
The second technique of satire is all about inserting things into out-of-place environments, comparing them, in a way which makes them appear absurd. This can be achieved by simply by including superficial details which defy logic, does not make sense, or tests the reader’s idea of plausibility.

Reversal
The third technique of satire is reversal, in which an author subverts a situation to present an inversion of how things really are back to the reader. It usually involves a story which presents the opposite of normalcy (as we understand it) in order to make a satirical point about it.

Satirical
The fourth technique of satire is parody (ridicule), which relies upon the art of imitation to ape (imitate/ridicule) another author’s style, lampoon (publicly criticize) aspects of an already-existing story or taking the best stylistic aspects from another author’s work of literature in order to pick holes in it.
The main problem with parodies is how they end up essentially being a poorer copy rather than aiming to be truly original.