Satire

The holding up to ridicule of the follies and weakne es of mankind, by way of rebuke, is called satire . Satire is general rather than individual, its object being the reformation of abuses. A lampoon , which has been defined as a personal satire , attacks the individual rather than his fault, and is intended to injure rather than to reform. Said Sheridan: "Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties than by printing them."