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Noun Concept
Categories: Rhetoric, Poetics, Satire, Rhetorical techniques, 1720s neologisms
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bathos
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Bathos is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", to describe an amusingly failed attempt at presenting artistic greatness. Wikipedia
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Bathos is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", to describe an amusingly failed attempt at presenting artistic greatness. Wikipedia
Literary term and device. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Literary term for anticlimax of amusing failed attempts at sublimity, or pathos Wikidata
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narrative
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The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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Pope
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bathetic, Bathous

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