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Burlesque vs. Cartoon — What's the Difference?

Burlesque vs. Cartoon — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Burlesque and Cartoon

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Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery.Burlesque overlaps in meaning with caricature, parody and travesty, and, in its theatrical sense, with extravaganza, as presented during the Victorian era.

Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of illustration that is typically drawn, sometimes animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation.

Burlesque

A literary or dramatic work that makes fun of something, often by means of outlandish exaggeration.

Cartoon

A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.

Burlesque

A ludicrous or mocking imitation; a travesty
The antics of the defense attorneys turned the trial into a burlesque of justice.
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Cartoon

A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically
A political cartoon.

Burlesque

A variety show characterized by broad ribald comedy, dancing, and striptease.

Cartoon

A preliminary sketch similar in size to the work, such as a fresco, that is to be copied from it.

Burlesque

To imitate mockingly or humorously
"always bringing junk ... home, as if he were burlesquing his role as provider" (John Updike).

Cartoon

A usually short, animated movie or television program.

Burlesque

To use the methods or techniques of burlesque.

Cartoon

An animated character in a movie or television program.

Burlesque

(dated) Parodical; parodic

Cartoon

A comic strip.

Burlesque

A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.

Cartoon

A ridiculously oversimplified or stereotypical representation
Criticized the actor's portrayal of Jefferson as a historically inaccurate cartoon.

Burlesque

A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Cartoon

To draw a humorous or satirical representation of; caricature.

Burlesque

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

Cartoon

To make humorous or satirical drawings.

Burlesque

To make a burlesque parody of.

Cartoon

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

Burlesque

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.

Cartoon

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.

Burlesque

Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.

Cartoon

(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.

Burlesque

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.

Cartoon

(arts) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.

Burlesque

An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
The dull burlesque appeared with impudence,And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.

Cartoon

(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.

Burlesque

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?

Cartoon

A diagram in a scientific concept.

Burlesque

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.

Cartoon

To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.

Burlesque

To employ burlesque.

Cartoon

(arts) To make a preliminary sketch.

Burlesque

A theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)

Cartoon

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; - used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

Burlesque

A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

Cartoon

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."

Burlesque

Make a parody of;
The students spoofed the teachers

Cartoon

Same as comic strip.

Burlesque

Relating to or characteristic of a burlesque;
Burlesque theater

Cartoon

A motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.

Cartoon

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Cartoon

A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence

Cartoon

Draw cartoons of

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