Definitionn. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style
Last update: June 28, 2016
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She has a gift for parody. [verb]
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His specialty was parodying schoolgirl fiction. [verb]
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The following is a partial list of his writings: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812); The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle (1813), a good-natured parody on The Lay of the Last Minstrel; Letters from the South (1817); The Backwoodsman: a Poem (1818); Salmagundi (2nd series, 1819-1820); A Sketch of Old England, by a New England Man (1822); Koningsmarke, the Long Finne (1823), a quiz on the romantic school of Walter Scott; John Bull in America; or the New Munchausen (1824), a broad caricature of the early type of British traveller in America; The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham (1826); Chronicles of the City of Gotham, from the Papers of a Retired Common Councilman (183 0); The Dutchman's Fireside (1831); Westward Ho! [Please select]
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In recent years the finances of football have been a grotesque parody of the Italian financial system. [noun]
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They provide the standard issue coffee shop: a sick, pallid parody of the cafe culture of the Fifties. [Please select]
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Everything can be parodied, even parody. [verb]
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A parody of a pro-slavery speech in Congress. [Please select]
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Longer PoemsByron's later volumes, Manfred and Cain, the one a curious, and perhaps unconscious, parody of Faust, the other of Paradise Lost, are his two best known dramatic works. [Please select]
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I see a parody of the popular battle between razor-back and rattler. [Please select]
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"And to think that I am a useless wreck--a poor parody of a man--whilst--Mira is." [Please select]
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(Accord-to Hegel's parody, the absolute is the night, in which all cows are black.) [Please select]
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