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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#m1)

2) To parody something means to copy it in a funny exaggerated way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#m2)

3) A parody of something is a very bad, unfair version of it, as in "a parody of justice". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x1)
- The comedy show did a parody of the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x2)
- That account is a parody; it isn't really the president. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x3)
- The film parodies old spy movies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x4)
- The trial was a parody of justice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x5)
- His parody of the teacher's walk made everyone laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x6)
- Parody is funny when it is clever, not cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/20/)
- [A parody copies the shape and rhythm of a well-known poem or song but changes the words to make it funny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parody» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parody/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.