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Definition of Bathos

Bathos
Bathos Ba"thos, n. [Gr. ? depth, fr. ? deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Meaning of Bathos from wikipedia

- Bathos (UK: /ˈbeɪθɒs/ BAY-thoss; Ancient Gr****: βάθος, lit. "depth") is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay "Peri...
- bathos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bathos is a literary term and device. Bathos may also refer to: Bathos (album), by the group Aarni Bathos (EP)...
- A batholith (from Ancient Gr**** bathos 'depth' and lithos 'rock') is a large m**** of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than 100 km2...
- Bathos (Ancient Gr****: Βάθος) was a town of ancient Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, between Trapezus and Basilis. Near to a neighbouring fountain called...
- After a second demo in 2002, Aarni released its first full-length album, Bathos, in 2004. Aarni was signed to Firebox Records's subsidiary label Firedoom...
- Pope had criticized Philips repeatedly (in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places), and praising or condemning Philips was a political...
- error for "πάθους". With the essay, Pope introduced the use of the term "bathos" (Gr**** βάθος, depth, the antonym to ὕψος (hupsos), height) to mean a failed...
- Self-referential humor expressed discreetly and surrealistically is a form of bathos. In general, self-referential humor often uses hypocrisy, oxymoron, or paradox...
- Retrieved 3 January 2022. "Coldplay Consciously Uncouple From Trademark Bathos On Appealing Ghost Stories". Spin. 17 May 2014. Archived from the original...
- superficial fop; the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." Frank Reicher, known to modern audiences for playing the ship's captain...