Pastiche

Imagine you are playing with your toy blocks, and you want to create a big tower. You have different colors and shapes of blocks, and you decide to put them together to make a unique and fun tower. That's like creating something called a pastiche!

In adult terms, pastiche is when an artist or writer takes different elements from different works and combines them to make their own new creation. It's like taking different parts of different puzzles and putting them together to make your own unique picture.

For example, if you were going to make a pastiche of a movie, you might take a character from one movie, put them in a setting from another movie, and use some of the music from a completely different movie. You take all these different elements and mix them together to create something completely new and original!

So, pastiche is like creating a fun and unique tower out of different shapes and colors of toy blocks, or creating a new story, movie or artwork by combining different elements from other works.