WRITING TERMS: SATIRE IN SONG EXAMPLE: RANDY NEWMAN OSCAR WINNERS SHORT PEOPLE

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Satire:
Satire is the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, indignation or scorn.

One example: Randy Newman's Short People

Irony:
Verbal irony: a statement in which the implicit meaning is different from what the speaker asserts.

Dramatic irony: the audience shares with the author knowledge of which a character is ignorant: the character acts in a way grossly inappropriately to the actual circumstances, or expects the opposite of what fate holds in store, or says something the anticipates the actual outcome, but not at all in the way that he means it.

Utopia:
• term invented by Thomas More
• an intended confusion between Greek “eu-topos” (a good place) and Greek “ou-topos” (no place) which implies that the good place is nowhere to be found.
• A long tradition of utopian literature, Plato, Erasmus, More, Rabelais…