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Parody   /pˈɛrədi/   Listen
noun
parody  n.  (pl. parodies)  
1.
A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. "The lively parody which he wrote... on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause."
2.
A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. (Obs.)


verb
parody  v. t.  (past & past part. parodied; pres. part. parodying)  To write a parody upon; to burlesque. "I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace."





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"Parody" Quotes from Famous Books



... might not be considered a suitable form of poem for parody, but this M. Durosoi, or Du Rosoi, accomplished in his Les Jours d'Ariste (1770), and was sent to the Bastille for his pains. The cause of his condemnation was that he had published this work without ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... written some six weeks since, was received in due course, and also the paper with the parody. It is true, as suggested it might be, that I have never seen Poe's "Raven"; and I very well know that a parody is almost entirely dependent for its interest upon the reader's acquaintance with the original. Still there is enough in the polecat, ...
— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various
... The following parody of a customary paragraph in the papers will be considered, we think, a most fitting conclusion ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour
... chaps shove it under our noses." Beetle dropped into a drawling parody of King's most biting colloquial style—the gentle rain after the thunder-storm. "Well, it's all very sufficiently vile and disgraceful, isn't it? I don't know who comes out of it worst: Tulke, who happens to have been ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... easy to parody the ballads themselves, or at least the ballad imitations, as Johnson would demonstrate ex tempore. "I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand." And it was just as easy to parody ...
— Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) • William Wagstaffe


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