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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/14204
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/14204
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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 **Parody** is a mockery of a specific existing thing. Weird Al Yankovic writes parodies — "Beat It" as "Eat It," for example. _Saturday Night Live_ parodies political figures by mimicking their qualities to extremes.

**Satire** mocks general things and overall qualities and stereotypes, by being an exaggerated copy or twisting some element ironically. In _South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,_ Satan's big song "Up There" was a satire of Disney "hero/ine has a dream" songs.

_Blazing Saddles_ is a satire of Westerns; _Men in Tights_ is a parody of the Robin Hood myth.

**ETA** examples in books: in addition to @what's good examples, you have Sol Weinstein's [Israel Bond series](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sol%20weinstein&sprefix=sol+weinst%2Caps%2C379), which are parodies of James Bond. There's the _Barry Trotter_ unauthorized parodies of the Harry Potter series. You could argue that _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_ is a parody. _The Wind Done Gone_ is both parody and satire. Ian Doescher has _brilliantly_ rewritten the _Star Wars_ trilogy as Shakespearean plays.

_Catch-22_ is a satire of the military, government, and war. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a satirical suggestion for dealing with overpopulation, and _Gulliver's Travels_ satirizes various faults of character of different groups of people. Hugh Laurie's _The Gun Seller_ starts as a satire of noir pulp but changes to an actual noir about halfway through. Douglas Adams's _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ satirizes bureaucracy (among many other subjects).

If you google "satire novels" and "parody novels" you will come up with plenty of examples.

Original score: 5