mock-heroic

I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing.

Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.”

His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.”

She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.

Black recalled the other day, slipping into the booming, mock-heroic voice that serves as one of his trademarks as a movie star.