PARODYSatire – Mockery - Spoof

To be presented as a Literary Term.

Cover along with Ballads and Prior to Arthurian Legends

Included in this Medieval Unit Exam and Final Exam

Defininition: Parody

• An Amusing imitation:

• A piece of writing or music that deliberately copies or parallels another more serious work in a comic or satirical way.

Parody of Sarah Palin

From a parody of Sarah Palin to a Parody starring Michael Palin

Parody of King Arthur

• “But a Flesh Wound !”

On a quest for the sacred shrubbery

Parody of TV News – Jon Stewart

Parody of TV News – SNL Weekend Update

Stephen ColbertParody of an extreme Republican Neo-con

Stephen Colbert

Parody of an extreme

Republican Neo-con

Parody

The basis of Humor in

Mad Magazine

Parody

The basis of Humor in

Mad Magazine

Simpsons Parody of the

Beatles

The Simpsons

Parody

PARODY

A Bit of a Parody of

Jane Austen

National Lampoon

All Parody

“to lampoon” means

“to parody”

“Till Next time, Godspeed, Dr. U”