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parody
noun
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An imitation that exaggerates distinctive features for comic or critical effect.
The students wrote a parody of the school's elaborate announcements.
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The next scene used parody to imitate the grand language of an official station announcement. That comic shift worked only if the actors preserved the difference between a tender private memory and an exaggerated public performance of importance.
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