parodies in English

noun
1
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
the movie is a parody of the horror genre
verb
1
produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).
his specialty was parodying schoolgirl fiction

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1. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Parodies, Anagrammatical: Parodies, Anagrammatical

2. Bewilder is creating VideoGames and parodies for (+18) Select a membership level

3. The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to Internet slang.

4. Not surprisingly, “Blitt” features numerous parodies of the current occupant of the White House

5. 16 He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.

6. Baloney is the show's parody of Barney himself and one of many parodies on Animaniacs

7. 9 Both are parodies of seminal religious figures with vast and enduring ideological legacies.

8. Synonyms for Aperies include mimicry, imitation, impersonation, impressions, parodies, caricatures, copying, mockery, apings and burlesque

9. Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals, their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns.

10. Aok is an American animation YouTube channel that makes parodies of certain shows to make them more relevant

11. From the demented minds of Bizarro authors Danger Slater and Brian Asman comes Boinking Bizarro, an anthology of weird literary parodies

12. The plot is a similar to that of a picaresque novel or a bildungsroman, for it parodies many adventure and romance cliches.

13. As Blowfly, he has recorded numerous albums, mostly of sex-based parodies of other songs, as well as original raps themed around sex.

14. Bonjour,Bienvenue sur la chaîne youtube du collectif "Steack Achier".Au programme : des parodies, des saga MP3, des conventions et des séries

15. While some of the original Beats embraced the Beatniks, or at least found the parodies humorous (Ginsberg, for example, appreciated the parody in the comic strip

16. In the days that followed, clever parodies of the TV advert appeared online, with people stating random identity markers, from their blood type to being a hipster.

17. Or she might, in a wonderfully bizarre manner, poke fun at the Affectations of the powerful or at macho swaggering, or create ironic parodies of gene technology or psychic phenomena

18. Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom—Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and Beshrews and marrys.” The writing of 1601 foreshadows his fondness for this treatment.

19. The Analogical and univocal orders--the sacramental search for order and integration, and the immanentist parodies of the same (which presume to exhaust reality)--find their respective embodiments in the figures of the Tutelar and Tribune, as I will show.

20. ‘Parodies, jokes, Boutades, all limited to a thousand words by close-fisted editors, earned him the roubles needed to pay for his education.’ ‘A further danger for those who study this text is that of taking isolated gestures for more than what they are: mere Boutades, responses to specific situations.’

21. If the ancient comedies had the same cut and style, the strictly drilled step, and the exquisitely metrical language of ancient tragedies, so that they might pass for parodies, so are the dramatic satires of Tieck cut in as original and strange a manner; just as Anglicanly irregular and as metrically capricious as the tragedies of Shakespeare.

22. The Californians is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live which parodies a soap opera and features Karina (played by Kristen Wiig), Devin (played by Bill Hader), Stuart (played by Fred Armisen), Trey (played by Kenan Thompson) and Rosa (played by Vanessa Bayer), who is also the only brunette, as wealthy blondes with Valley Girl accents exaggerated to the point of incoherence.

23. José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist.His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion.His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and has made films in the Spanish, Catalan