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The 1 Up Fever (2013), mockumentary about Bitcoin and augmented reality video games.; 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.; 7 Days in Hell (2015), a fictional documentary-style exposé on the rivalry between two of the greatest tennis players of all time who battled it out in a 2001 match that lasted seven days.
A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [1] Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of letters has been removed and, where necessary, the punctuation and word breaks in the clue rearranged to form a new more-or-less grammatical ...
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary. [1] The term originated in the 1960s but was popularized in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.
Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. [1] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence , [ 2 ] although it is not necessarily ironic . [ 3 ] Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken [ 4 ] or, with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
Mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality Mock may refer to: Names. Mock (surname) Mock, or Duncan Stump, a member of the band Mock & Toof;
An example Jumble-style puzzle. Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.