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Word: Bathos
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century (first recorded in the Greek sense): from Greek, literally ‘depth’. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th century
ˈbeɪθɒs
(especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous
Short Definition:effect of anticlimax created by unintentional lapse in mood from sublime to trivial or ridiculous
Examples:- his epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos
- a nice balance between the colloquial, which might have led to bathos, and an over-polished style
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