parody

A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.

The genre of literature comprising such works.

Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty.

The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.

To make a parody of. synonym: imitate.

To turn into a parody; write a parody upon; imitate, as a poem or song, in a ludicrous or ridiculous manner.

A kind of literary composition in which the form and expression of grave or dignified writings are closely imitated, but are made ridiculous by the subject or method of treatment; a travesty that follows closely the form and expression of its original; specifically, a burlesque imitation of a poem, in which a trivial or humorous subject is treated in the style of a dignified or serious one: also applied to burlesque musical works.

A popular maxim; a proverb. Wright.

Passage; passing away.