In the spirit of node your homework. According to Dr. Leslie Palmer of The University of North Texas, there are three kinds of satire: Menippean, Horatian, and Juvenalian. Menippus was an ancient slave who wrote satires of ideas and philosophies. Horace was a Roman who wrote gentle satire of stereotypes- lazy schoolboys and idle milkmaids. And Juvenal, my personal favorite, wrote bitter, viciously personal attacks, such as, "SO, Catallus, I hear you broke down and got engaged! Does Rome not have enough bridges for you to leap from one?"