A parody (; also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original workits subject, author, style, or some other targetby means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, "parody is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier, somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), animation, gaming, and film.

The writer and critic John Gross observes in his "Oxford Book of Parodies", that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent") and burlesque (which "fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low ends"). Meanwhile, the "Encyclopedie" of Denis Diderot distinguishes between the parody and the burlesque, "A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace." Historically, when a formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by the Buster Keaton shorts that mocked that genre.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. John Gross
2. he is a writer
3. pastiche and burlesque
4. a spoof
5. a send-up
6. it can
7. imitation
8. a literary theorist
9. Denis Diderot
10. Yes
11. a miserable buffoonery
12. Buster Keaton
13. the formula grew tired
14. the populace
1. Who wrote "Oxford Book of Parodies?"
2. What Is his profession?
3. He said parody flourishes somewhere between what and what?
4. What's another word for a parody?
5. What else?
6. Does a parody make fun of someone or something?
7. By what means?
8. Who is Linda Hutcheon?
9. Who wrote "Encyclopedie"
10. Does he think a good parody is funny, even to scholars?
11. What does he call burlesque?
12. Who mocked melodramas?
13. What was basically wrong with those melodramas?
14. Who did Diderot think enjoyed burlesque?