= PARODY in contemporary use, a parody is a satirical work that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all media, including literature, music and film. Cultural movements can be also parodiados.// in literature, a work which thoroughly imitated the style of an author to get a comic effect or ridicule. Differs from the burlesque works ( by the depth of his 41 technical insight. and 40 caricature; dealing with trivial way 41 worthy topics;. Parody relentlessly ridicules intellectual and stylistic springs from his victim and therefore can be made only if the parodist possesses a thorough understanding of the work that subjected to mockery. There are examples of this genre in the ancient Greece and has grown in all literature and in all times.