PARODY  

諷刺滑稽模仿法 Jocular teasing imitation of another work.

Hypernym
  • METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Greek/Latin: common everywhere, but especially in comedy. Aristophanes, Clouds ca 268, has a nice parody of a prayer to the gods.

Socrates

Come then, Clouds most glorious, and

show yourselves to this man here.

Whether on the holy snowy

[270] peak of Olympus ye now sit,

or nymphs to a holy dance you're calling

in father Ocean's garden, or

whether again in the Nile delta

you're drawing water in golden bowls,*

or hanging out at Lake Maeotis

or up on Mimas' snowy crag:

hearken to my call; accept my

sacrifice; enjoy our rites!...



Strepsiades

Honored Clouds, I do revere you;

let me answer with a fart

all their thunder: that's how scared they've

made me, that's how terrified!

Now, if its allowed, or even

[295] if it's not, I need to crap!



Socrates

Don't be joking, don't behave like

one of these comedians!

Reverence, please! A swarm of gods are

stirring and prepared to sing.

Ancient Chinese: occasionally used, especially in Zhuangzi. Not a recognised form.

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