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).
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2. bathos
   [n] - triteness or triviality of style
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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 ...
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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.
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5. bathos
   noun triteness or triviality of style
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6. Bathos
   • (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
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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 ...
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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 elicits, suffering. When a captious reviewer den...
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9. 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.
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10. bathos
    
    • triteness or triviality of style
    • insincere pathos
    • a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
    
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11. 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
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12. Bathos
    `Bathos` (Greek βάθος, meaning depth) is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. It may be deliberate, through the use of an incongruous combination of ideas in order to provide a seemingly unintended humorou...
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