to be effective; have effect; act upon / to work; to hold; to have / (of system) to be able to be applied; can be used

satire / irony; sarcasm

novel, story, fiction

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

society (group of people sharing culture) / a class, a world of a certain group

a caricature

social science

a short novel, novella, short story