What are the rhetorical devices and examples of parody?

What are the rhetorical devices and examples of parody?

[Definition] A parody. A rhetorical device that imitates the textual structure of the source text and reconstructs the target text with the same textual structure as the source text.

Because the text is the parody prototype, the source text is usually hidden for space reasons, and the target text appears directly.

[example]

Example 1: Notice of Selection of Mr. Nanguo

Dear Mr. Nanguo,

The editorial committee of the Dictionary of World Famous Instrumentalists decided that you have been selected as the Dictionary of World Famous Instrumentalists with honor. I would like to express my sincere congratulations to you!

The Dictionary of World Famous Instrumentalists is edited by Professor Zhen from Cosmic Conservatory of Music, with Professor Jia Lichuan as the deputy editor and Bole as the consultant. This book will be published by Confucius Publishing House at home and abroad.

Please send your resume and a brief introduction of your artistic achievements (within 300 words) to the editorial board of Dictionary of World Famous Instrumental Artists, address: No.5 Avenue 1, Zixu City, with the postal code of 000000.

Due to the limited funds of the editorial board, based on the principle of taking from the people and using it for the people, a part of editing and printing fees will be appropriately charged. Please mail 500 yuan to our editorial department at the above address, and print the information after receiving it.

Waiting for an answer.

Editorial Committee of Dictionary of World Famous Performers

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X year x month x day

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(Huayu's Notice of Selection of Mr. Nanguo)

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Although the source text of Mr. Nanguo's Notes on Selected Articles is hidden, its content, discourse mode and text structure are the conventional formats of various "notices for entering the Canon" that often appear in today's society. The rhetorical effect of this notice is realized through a series of self-denying semantics: Mr. Nan Guo, who is just making up the numbers, denies the true semantics of instrumental musicians; Zhen (true) and Jia (false) Li Chuan denied the true semantics of the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of the dictionary; Qi Xuanwang, who can't identify talents, denies the true meaning of Bole, who is good at identifying talents. 000000 and ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× Describing a sad social world is not without banter and exaggeration.

Parody can create positive rhetorical effects, and it can also lead to negative and inert thinking. Fan Wendaquan. com collects the original text of the latter parody.

Example 2: Work Summary of Property Management Center in 2006

I. Overview of the Centre

Second, safety in production

Third, service and management.

Fourth, manpower training.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Party building work

Problems in intransitive verbs

VII. Priorities of Work in 2007

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(Fan Wenda's Work Summary of Property Management Center in 2006)

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The above words are omitted. The "Work Summary" template shown in Example 2 can be used as the source text and copied to countless target texts of the same type. This situation already belongs to text-based cloning.