| Front | burlesque |
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| Back | a kind of mockery found in all arts, and in life too. imitation of literary species of specific work or author. it consists of mock-heroic, travesty, and parody. high burlesque (otherwise mock heroic) and low burlesque (otherwise travesty or burlesque Pyramus and Thisbe's episode in a Midsummer night's dream; a high theme or subject is travestied by a low style Pope's Rape of the Lock; treating a low theme in a high style parody; the mockery of specific works or authors |
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