Entertainment / Music / Parody: A composition based on previous work. A common technique used in Medieval and Renaissance music.
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Parody Noun Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, satirize, caricature, mock, mimic, ape, ridicule, deride, laugh at, poke fun at, guy, scoff at, sneer at, rib, tease, twit, roast, pillory, make a laughing-stock (of), make sport of, make fun of, make a monkey (out) of, fleer
Parody Adjective Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, satire, caricature, mockery, mimicry, take-off, spoof, send-up
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Entertainment / Music / Cakewalk: Syncopated, strutting dance of nineteenth century origin: developed among Southern slaves in a parody of white plantation owners. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Self-Reflexivity: Writing has self-reflexivity if it somehow refers to itself. (Critics also call this being self-referential.) For instance, the following sentence has self-reflexive traits: This is not a sentence. He MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Solecism: The area around the city of Soloi in ancient Cilicia had a population who spoke a nonstandard form of Attic Greek. Accordingly, the dominant Athenians tended to make fun of them, parody them in plays, MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Burlesque: A work that ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial or vice-versa. See also parody and travesty. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Panglossian: The word is an eponym based on the fictional Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire's satire, Candide. Dr. Pangloss is a naively optimistic pedant who upholds the doctrine that 'all is for the best,' and that 'we MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Postmodernism: A general (and often hotly debated) label referring to the philosophical, artistic, and literary changes and tendencies after the 1940s and 1950s up to the present day. We can speak of postmodern art, MORE