The answer is C: Satire. Satire criticizes people or ideas, with the purpose to show that they have faults or are wrong. The writers employ this technique with his fictional characters, using irony, exaggeration and humor, in a very indirect or disguised way. Fable (A) is a brief story with a moral lesson. Parable (B) is a short story also witha moral lesson. Allegory is a figure of speech (characters represent qualities relate to morals).