the use of morbid and absurd situations for comic and satirical purposes in modern fiction and drama
montage
in art, music, or literature, a composite made by freely juxtaposing usually heterogeneous images; in cinema, the production of a rapid succession of images to present a stream of interconnected ideas (see also Glossary, chapter 33 "photomontage")
tone cluster
a group of adjacent dissonant notes, such as the notes of a scale, sounded together
totalitarian
a political regime that imposes the will of the state upon the life and conduct of the individual
