Look up: Bathos


  1. Bathos
    The descent from the sublime to the ridiculous. This expression comes from Pope's satire Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking (1727).
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  2. bathos
    [n] - triteness or triviality of style
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=bathos

  3. Bathos
    anti-climax, designed to shock or amuse. e.g. The Queen stepped graciously out of her gleaming limousine, walked up the red carpet in suitably regal style--then gave a huge yawn, bored with the day's proceedings. (The reader has been built up to expect one type of serious, ceremonial atmosphere but ...
    Found op http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/hrc_style.html

  4. Bathos
    Ba'thos (bā'thŏs) noun [ Greek ba`qos depth, from baqy`s deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/21

  5. bathos
    noun triteness or triviality of style
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bathos

  6. Bathos
    • (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/bathos/

  7. bathos
    (from Greek bathys, `deep`), unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow. The ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/31

  8. bathos
    bathos (Greek) Depth. Literally 'depth', but figuratively 'dull' or 'inane', generally to a ludicrous degree. The term has been misused with pathos, which is something entirely different: the Greek pathos, like the Latin passio, means 'suffering', and a pathetic work is one which depicts, or elici...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/287/

  9. Bathos
    Bathos (Greek βάθος, meaning depth) is an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. While often unintended, bathos may be used deliberately to produce a humorous effect. If bathos is overt, it may be described as Burlesque or mock-heroic. As ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathos

  10. bathos
    Alexander Pope's Peri-Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728) describes bathos as a poet's fall, in a work of some seriousness, into an unintentionally comic pathos.
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic

  11. bathos
    1. triteness or triviality of style
    2. insincere pathos
    3. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

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  12. bathos
    In literary theory, sudden descent from the important and serious to the ridiculous or comic; when it occurs at the end of a passage or sequence, it is a form of anticlimax. In weak or inexperienced writers, bathos is usually unintentional
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0038668.html

  13. bathos
    1) Anticlimax 2) Crocodile tears 3) Expressive style 4) Maudlinism 5) Mawkishness 6) Schmaltz 7) Style
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/bathos/1

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