parody

«parody» in Mova's school dictionary: a funny copy of a song, story, film or style that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a parody, parodies); verb (parody, parodies, parodied, parodying)

meaning for a pupil

1) A parody is a funny copy of a song, story, film or style that exaggerates it to make people laugh or to make fun of it. tree →

2) To parody something means to copy it in a funny exaggerated way. tree →

3) A parody of something is a very bad, unfair version of it, as in "a parody of justice". tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons, children read and write parodies of poems and fairy tales, and in media lessons they learn to tell a parody from real news (some fake news sites are parody). Phrases: «a parody of», «a parody song», «parody account», «a parody of justice».

examples

• We wrote a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" about homework. tree →
• The comedy show did a parody of the news. tree →
• That account is a parody; it isn't really the president. tree →
• The film parodies old spy movies. tree →
• The trial was a parody of justice. tree →
• His parody of the teacher's walk made everyone laugh. tree →
• Parody is funny when it is clever, not cruel. tree →

note

Plural: parodies; verb: parodied, parodying (y → ie before -s/-ed, but stays before -ing). Stress: PAR-o-dee. Close words: spoof, satire, send-up. Trap: a parody can look real, so check before believing or sharing it.

In the corpora

• "Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a parody account is a joke copying a real name.
• A parody copies the shape and rhythm of a well-known poem or song but changes the words to make it funny.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «parody» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.