parody

genre of imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work
Intangible genre Q170539
parody
Jan Brueghel the Younger · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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parody

Summary

parody is a genre[1]. parody ranks in the top 8% of genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,518 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • parody's instance of is recorded as genre[3].
  • parody is a type of humour[4].
  • parody's Commons category is recorded as Parody[5].
  • parody's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parodies[6].
  • parody's product or material produced is recorded as derivative work[7].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[9].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[10].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[15].
  • parody's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[16].
  • parody's partially coincident with is recorded as persiflage[17].
  • parody's uses is recorded as parody[18].
  • parody's practiced by is recorded as impressionist[19].
  • parody's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].

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Definition and Type

parody's instance of is recorded as genre[3]. parody is a type of humour[4].

Why It Matters

parody ranks in the top 8% of genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,518 views/month).[2] parody has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] parody is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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