bathos
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Bathos hovers throughout, not least when what looks like a thurible is reverently lowered from the roof – and turns out to be a lampshade.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012
As evidenced by the stampede of undistinguished candidates for mayor, San Francisco is in danger of becoming Bathos by the Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the various fragments contributed by Pope, there is only one which need be mentioned here—the treatise on Bathos in the third volume, in which he was helped by Arbuthnot.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Bathos, bā′thos, n. a ludicrous descent from the elevated to the mean in writing or speech.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
In the Bathos he was classed with the parrots and the tortoises.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing bathos
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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