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Bathos
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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
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bathos
[n] - triteness or triviality of style Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=bathos
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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
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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
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bathos
noun triteness or triviality of style Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bathos
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Bathos
• (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/bathos/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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bathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- insincere pathos
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
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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
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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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