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• SatireRelated: Imitating a target’s style can reveal its habits as absurd.

• AllegoryCompared with: Parody depends on recognizable imitation, whereas allegory depends on extended correspondence.

• IronyCompared with: Parody may use irony, but its defining device is imitation.

• Political satireRelated: Imitating political speeches and rituals can expose their conventions as absurd.

• IntertextualityBroader topic: Parody uses recognizable imitation to redirect the meaning of its source.

• DeadpanCompared with: Parody identifies what a joke imitates, while deadpan describes how it is performed.

• MetafictionRelated: Metafiction often uses parody to reveal and test literary conventions.

• CaricatureRelated: Parodists exaggerate signature mannerisms and features much as visual caricaturists do.

• MockumentaryNarrower topic: Mockumentary is a specific form of parody organized around documentary conventions.

• Fair UseRelated: Parody may need recognizable borrowing to make its target clear, as in Campbell.

• Don QuixoteRelated: Cervantes uses knightly adventures to comic effect while also testing their appeal.

• Social satireRelated: Imitating familiar social forms can reveal their absurd assumptions.

• AllusionCompared with: Parody imitates a source at length, while allusion can invoke it with a brief cue.

• GenreRelated: Parody depends on recognizable conventions and makes them conspicuous through exaggeration.

• ComedyRelated: Comedy often uses imitation to expose the habits of its targets.

• Film genreRelated: Parody depends on familiar genre conventions and exposes how they operate.

• PasticheCompared with: Pastiche may imitate without parody’s critical or comic intent.

• Literary adaptationCompared with: Parody may borrow a source chiefly to mock or critique it.

• ImpersonationCompared with: Parody signals its imitation as commentary rather than a claim to be the original person.

• The OnionRelated: Its articles copy the language and formats of journalism.

• Camp (style)Compared with: Parody usually signals mockery or critique, while camp may enjoy its object without simply ridiculing it.

• Incongruity theoryRelated: Parody can expose a mismatch between a form’s conventions and its exaggerated use.

• UlyssesRelated: Several episodes humorously imitate genres, rhetoric, and literary conventions.

• HumorRelated: It generates humor by transforming familiar conventions into comic imitation.

• BurlesqueRelated: Like burlesque, parody depends on imitation, but it targets recognizable conventions more directly.

• Comedy filmRelated: Parody makes familiar film conventions funny by copying and distorting them.

• Crossover fictionCompared with: Parody can imitate several franchises without making their worlds literally coexist.

• Mel BrooksNarrower topic: Parody is the central method connecting Brooks’s films across genres.

• Menippean satireRelated: Parody lets the mode expose the assumptions hidden in authoritative styles.

• Stock characterRelated: Parody can expose the conventions underlying a familiar character type.

• Comic novelRelated: Parody lets a novel make familiar literary conventions themselves the subject of comedy.

• Literary genreRelated: Parody makes genre conventions visible by exaggerating or subverting them.

• PanegyricCompared with: Parody can mimic panegyric's grand style to expose its conventions or excesses.

• CarnivalesqueRelated: Parody turns authoritative language and forms into objects of play.

• Literary allusionCompared with: Parody imitates its target, while allusion may evoke a source without imitating it.

• Literary forgeryCompared with: Parody signals imitation as a device rather than presenting imitation as authentic writing.

• Mock-heroicRelated: Mock-heroic uses imitation of epic conventions as a comic device.

• Monty Python and the Holy GrailRelated: The film imitates heroic quests and medieval storytelling to mock their conventions.

• Remix cultureRelated: Parody transforms its source while relying on audiences to recognize it.

• American humorRelated: Parody draws on familiar American media, genres, and public figures.

• JokeCompared with: Parody builds humor through imitation, rather than necessarily through a setup and punch line.

• Karl KrausRelated: Kraus mimicked journalistic and political styles to reveal their distortions.

• LyricsRelated: Changing familiar lyrics can create commentary through recognition and contrast.

• Postmodern artRelated: Parody gives postmodern art a way to quote styles while exposing their conventions.

• Surreal humorCompared with: Parody depends on a source being recognizable; surreal humor can work without one.

• François RabelaisRelated: Parody lets Rabelais imitate scholastic, legal, and religious language while exposing its excesses.

• Orpheus in the UnderworldNarrower topic: The operetta makes mythic solemnity and operatic conventions targets of comic imitation.

• Spike MilliganRelated: Milligan’s scripts repeatedly twisted familiar genres, institutions, and dramatic conventions.

• The NightmareNarrower topic: The composition’s fame made it a target for humorous variations and caricature.

• 30 RockRelated: The sitcom repeatedly imitates television genres, advertising, and entertainment-industry conventions.