Swift's works would pretend to speak in the voice of an opponent and imitate the style of the opponent and have the parodic work itself be the satire.

Swift's works would pretend to speak in the voice of an opponent and imitate the style of the opponent and have the parodic work itself be the satire: the imitation would have subtle betrayals of the argument but would not be obviously absurd.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude … As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.

This is shown when Bolívar blamed the fall of the first republic on his subordinates trying to imitate " some ethereal republic " and in the process, not paying attention to the gritty political reality of South America.

Although Dutch potters did not immediately imitate Chinese porcelain, they began to after the death of the Wanli Emperor in 1620, when the supply to Europe was interrupted.

Mixed formations of men quickly became the norm for European infantrymen, with many, but not all, seeking to imitate the Tercio ; in England, a combination off billmen, longbowmen, and men-at-arms remained the norm, though this changed when the supply of yew on the island dwindled.

During an annual festival held at the beginning of the year, a festival of intoxication, the Egyptians danced and played music to soothe the wildness of the goddess and drank great quantities of wine ritually to imitate the extreme drunkenness that stopped the wrath of the goddess — when she almost destroyed humankind.

The Clouds imitate him when they seem to resemble centaurs ( line 349 ).

The Clouds imitate him when they seem to resemble timid deer ( line 353 ), he is a perjuror ( 400 ) and his name should be declined like a feminine noun ( 673-80 ).

The Clouds imitate him when they seem to resemble women ( line 355 ).

A design innovation for this series meant that the noses of the miniature vehicles would " dip " when stopped, to imitate the sudden application of brakes and deceleration on a real-life vehicle.

The title Princess Royal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria ( 1609 – 1669 ), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charles I ( 1600 – 1649 ), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled " Madame Royale ".

As the youngest and having grown up watching his brothers, Zeppo could fill in for and imitate any of the others when illness kept them from performing.

In his last communication to them, Napoleon warned them not to imitate the Greeks of the late Byzantine Empire, who engaged in subtle discussions when the ram was battering at their gates.

Anne was very relieved when little Helen was able to imitate the hand movements exactly without prompting because that indicated that Helen was a very bright girl.

His mother discovered that Varney quickly began to imitate the cartoon characters, so she started him in children's theater when he was 8 years old.

As a young musician, Pat Metheny did everything he could to sound like Wes Montgomery, but when he was 14 or 15, he decided that he felt that it was disrespectful to imitate him.

He could also imitate the sounds of the hoofs pounding on different surfaces: " stone, brick, clay, gravel, greensward, or when crossing bridges.

The Pall Mall Gazette observed, " It is always a melancholy business when a writer is driven to imitate himself.

Whereas onomatopoeia refers to the use of words to imitate actual sounds, there are languages known for having a special class of words that " imitate " soundless states or events, called phenomimes ( when they describe external phenomena ) and psychomimes ( when they describe psychological states ).

This is indicative of the allegorical content of " Porphyria's Lover " in which both characters imitate the process of artistic creation: when art is created or published, it is dead and forever unchanging.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

There is an extraordinary thing called TRUTH which has 10 million faces and forms – it is God's currency and the cleverest coiner or forger can't imitate it.

He has influenced many younger creators ( Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties ) and many have attempted to imitate his style.

The Common Mormon of India has female morphs which imitate the unpalatable red-bodied swallowtails, the Common Rose and the Crimson Rose.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance ; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments.

The CD itself is made to look like a mini LP and is pressed on black plastic with grooves on the top to imitate a LP, this version has the original cover which was lost, and the song " These Boots " was removed.

Most sources in condemning the practice seem to be referring to a wide, slow, perceptible oscillation in pitch, usually associated with intense emotion, whereas the ideal for modern vibrato, and possibly in earlier times as well, was to imitate the natural timbre of the adult singing voice, from which a measure of vibrato ( it has since been shown ) is rarely absent.

Despite its similarities to American theatrical Blackface, Ganguro fashion has no racial connotations, and the style is not meant to imitate black people.

He said, " Who but a bigot, even to the antiques, will say that he has not seen faces and necks, hands and arms in living women, that even the Grecian Venus doth but coarsely imitate.

On solo pieces like " Country Music ( A night in Hell )," he demonstrates his slapping and two-handed tapping proficiency as well as the ability to make the bass imitate the sounds of a wide range of instruments ; the piece has since become a popular live piece.

It has also been said that the jackalope can convincingly imitate any sound, including the human voice.

Because thou has passed out of common use, its traditional forms are often confused by those attempting to imitate older manners of speech.

Throughout the ages, Cao Cao's impressive victory at Guandu, the climatic event of his life, has drawn analysis by both historical commentators and militarists hoping to imitate his success.

The musical style of shanties has also inspired new musical compositions, ranging from those designed to imitate 19th century song-style to those merely intended to evoke seafaring culture through evocative phrases and token musical features.

Unlike pure music which has no reference in the real world and no story component, program music is instrumental music that may tell a story with explicit episodes, reveal facets of a character, place, or occasion, or imitate the sounds of the world.

The Northumbrian scribes " imitate very closely the best Italian manuscripts of about the sixth century ", but introduced small elements that gave their script a distinct style, which has always been greatly admired.

Such practitioners in Europe aim to go back to the original aims of Hijikata and Ohno and go beyond the tendency to imitate a ' master ' and instead search within their own bodies and histories for ' the body that has not been robbed ' ( Hijikata ).

Unlike the Common Cuckoo, it has no gentes whose eggs imitate those of a particular host.

" And when Picquart told him the letters were of recent date, he declared: " The Jews have, for the past year, been training some one to imitate the writing ; he has succeeded in making a perfect reproduction.

Ripened pu ' er tea () is pressed maocha that has been specially processed to imitate aged raw pu ' er.

Interestingly enough, if a hearing infant has deaf parents, they will still imitate the signs that they see their parents displaying.

The children who imitate the adult who has given the command with the correct action will stay in the game.