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Parodist   /pˈærədɪst/   Listen
Parodist

noun
1.
Mimics literary or musical style for comic effect.  Synonym: lampooner.






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"Parodist" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend Swift, dissipated life in literary idleness, with parodies and travesties on most of his contemporaries; and he made these little things often more exquisite at the cost of consuming on them a genius capable of better. A parodist or a burlesquer is a wit who is perpetually on the watch to catch up or to disguise an author's words, to swell out his defects, and pick up his blunders—to amuse the public! King was a wit, who lived on the highway of literature, appropriating, ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli



Words linked to "Parodist" :   humorist, caricaturist, parody, humourist



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