Both Uses
satire
in
The Shining
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- And as she stood there on the landing, wondering what to do next, the singing came up from below, rich, angry, bitterly satiric: "Roll me over In the clo-ho-ver, Roll me over, lay me down and do it again."†
Chpt 4 *
- He thought that Danny used the word quite sincerely, and Gary Benson as originally conceived had too, but as he had begun Act V, it had come more and more strongly to him that Gary was using the word satirically, outwardly straight-faced while the Gary Benson inside was mugging and leering at Denker.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(satire as in: wrote a satire) a way of making fun of people or ideas -- often through exaggeration
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a skit, essay, play, film or other literary work that uses mocking humor -- often through exaggeration