The parodist assumes the airs of a stage manager.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
The dangerous quickness with which he caught the manner of other poets made him an admirable parodist and translator.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
The sarcastic and the sentimental temper must always be hostile to each other; between romance and ridicule the antipathy is fundamental; and although one regrets that he ever wrote Rebecca and Rowena, the melodramatic novels of Bulwer-Lytton were fair enough game for the parodist.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall