mock-heroic

Even Joe smiled once or twice when Boone, in a mock heroic manner alluded to his exploits among the wolves.

To amuse himself, when professor of rhetoric, he wrote his mock-heroic of the battle of the frogs and mice, "Batrachomyomachia."

Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.

Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women.

The two latter personages have been already damaged by the mock heroic description of them in the introduction.