parodist
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- n mimics literary or musical style for comic effect
- It is Method Acting, since a successful parodist must live himself, imaginatively, into his parody.
- The parodist Donald Ogden Stewart wrote a burlesque of Emily Post called Perfect Behavior, starting with his definition: "The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally .
- The true parodist must do more than spoof superficial oddities and quirks of style; he must reach the deeper eccentricities of attitude, summon the author's familiar spirit and .