All mock-heroic synonyms

noun mock-heroic

• caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
• farce — a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
• joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
• satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
• skit — a short literary piece of a humorous or satirical character.
• burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
• travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
• pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
• cartoon — A cartoon is a humorous drawing or series of drawings in a newspaper or magazine.
• mimicry — the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
• apology — An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• roast — to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
• lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
• mime — the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
• jest — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
• takeoff — a taking or setting off; the leaving of the ground, as in leaping or in beginning a flight in an airplane.
• raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
• copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
• rib — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
• derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
• send-up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.