parody

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parody/ˈparədi/

▶noun (pl. parodies)

• 1 an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

• 2 a travesty: a parody of a smile.

▶verb (parodies, parodying, parodied) produce a parody of.

– derivatives
parodic adjective,
parodically adverb,
parodist noun.

– origin C16: via late L. from Gk parōidia, from para- ‘beside’ (expressing alteration) + ōidē ‘ode’.