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Term of literary criticism or of rhetorical technique
In literature and the arts, bathos (UK: /ˈbeɪθɒs/ BAY-thoss; Ancient Greek: βάθος, lit. "depth") is the use of a lofty, elegant, or elevated style to present
Bathos
Topics referred to by the same term
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)
Bathos_(disambiguation)
Bathos (Ancient Greek: Βάθος) was a town of ancient Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, between Trapezus and Basilis. Near to a neighbouring fountain called
Bathos_(Arcadia)
Finnish avant-garde metal band
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
Aarni
American adult animated television series
Cast : Fred Tatasciore as Killax, Thog, Brog, and Villager #1, Jon Olson as Bathos and Villager #2 29 9 "The Hollow Crown" Genndy Tartakovsky Darrick Bachman
Primal_(TV_series)
1726 short essay by Alexander Pope
universally accepted. With the essay, Pope introduced the use of the term "bathos" (Greek βάθος, depth, the antonym to ὕψος (hupsos), height) to mean a failed
Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry
Peri_Bathous,_Or_the_Art_of_Sinking_in_Poetry
1971 studio album by Bill Withers
on overtones of radical protest where other singers would descend into bathos. I don't find that even standout cuts like 'Ain't No Sunshine' and 'Grandma's
Just as I Am (Bill Withers album)
Just_as_I_Am_(Bill_Withers_album)
Humor that alludes to itself
Self-referential humor expressed discreetly and surrealistically is a form of bathos. In general, self-referential humor often uses hypocrisy, oxymoron, or paradox
Self-referential_humor
English painter, engraver and satirist (1697–1764)
plate I (1762); and his pessimistic view of all things in Tailpiece, or The Bathos (1764). In 1757, Hogarth was appointed Serjeant Painter to the King. Hogarth
William_Hogarth
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
The_Scarecrow_(play)
Athenian actor
could be shattered by a single, small mispronunciation, turning pathos into bathos. It also provides valuable insight into the rivalrous relationship between
Hegelochus_(actor)
2018 album by Aborted
who previously worked with the band's Termination Redux EP, Retrogore and Bathos EP. The recording sessions had officially concluded on April 11, 2018. The
TerrorVision_(album)
1972 studio album by Stevie Wonder
experiments" and writing better ballads without losing "his endearing natural bathos"; Christgau also highlighted "Superstition" as a translation of Wonder's
Talking_Book
Poem written by Henry Carey
Pope had criticized Philips repeatedly (in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places), and praising or condemning Philips was a political
Namby-pamby
1969 car accident and drowning in Massachusetts
Halberstam wrote in Harper's magazine that it was "of such cheapness and bathos as to be a rejection of everything the Kennedys had stood for in candor
Chappaquiddick_incident
Literary device
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Allegory
Narrative technique
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In_medias_res
2003 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow lauded Pratchett's "capacity for marvellous bathos", "epic" characterization, and "drum-tight" plotting, commending the "sprightliness"
Monstrous_Regiment_(novel)
Sculpture by Gillie and Marc
Saltz called the work "a Kitschy Monstrosity," saying it was "an ugly, bathos-filled folly that proves my adage that 95 percent of all public sculpture
The_Last_Three_(sculpture)
Second most important character in a narrative
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Deuteragonist
Device to resolve the plot of a dramatic work
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Deus_ex_machina
Literary element
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Story_structure
Belgian death metal band
Reconstruction (2010) Scriptures of the Dead (2014) Termination Redux (2016) Bathos (2017) La Grande Mascarade (2020) The Auricular Chronicles (Listenable,
Aborted
Literary and rhetorical device or general attitude towards life
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Irony
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List_of_genres
Greek word and rhetorical device
increasing, rather than decreasing, force. Catacosmesis is distinct from bathos because the former is a relative term, requiring that a phrase or word is
Catacosmesis
Literary genre
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Mystery_fiction
Character who contrasts with another character of a narrative work
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Foil_(narrative)
Artistic duo and performance artists
the film Boyland, featured in the 2015 Brooklyn Film Festival; and Bieber Bathos Elegy, a “hybrid work of musical performance” staged at the Whitney Museum
Felix_Bernstein_&_Gabe_Rubin
Stock character in literary works
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Swashbuckler
Film and video terminology
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Crossover_(fiction)
Story in a nested narration that brackets one or more embedded stories
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Frame_story
Representation that conveys deeper meaning
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Artistic_symbol
Narrative device used in literature
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Stream_of_consciousness
Monty Python sketch
enemies with sarcasm: "He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire". One of those interviewed, the stereotypical
Piranha_Brothers
1978 studio album by Kate Bush
universal and womanly, not the usual wilted kitten yearning or last-rave bathos." Peter Reilly of Stereo Review praised Bush for going against the grain
The_Kick_Inside
Dramatic literary form
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Play_(theatre)
Point of highest tension in narrative
is as valid a literary technique as a traditional climax. There may be bathos, a technique that transitions a tense scene into comic relief, in an anticlimax
Climax_(narrative)
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List_of_20th-century_writers
Plot device used in fiction
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Cliffhanger
Narrator whose credibility is compromised
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Unreliable_narrator
Asian narrative technique
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Kishōtenketsu
Art of persuasion
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Rhetoric
Separation of performers and audience
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Fourth_wall
Expressive culture shared by particular groups
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Folklore
Community or society that is undesirable or frightening
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Dystopia
Term in literary criticism
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Paratext
Stock character, notable for remaining composed in a comedic performance
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Straight_man
Character of a work actively opposing the protagonist
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Antagonist
Canadian actor (1929–2021)
while Robards seems utterly at sea...Plummer plays the humour and the bathos with equal ease and complete conviction. By turns funny and heartbreaking
Christopher_Plummer
Long fictional narrative story
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Novel
2024 novel by David Nicholls
praising Nicholls's ability to find the "sweet spot between pathos and bathos" and his "exquisite descriptions of longing". Erica Wagner of the Financial
You_Are_Here_(novel)
Type of fictional character
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Antihero
Social and cultural sharing of stories
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Storytelling
2012 song
song about a cannibalistic Hollywood star, Cantor called the production bathos. The Huffington Post called the production "more ridiculous than ever" and
Shia_LaBeouf_(song)
Ancient Norse prose stories and histories
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Saga
Central topic, subject, or message within a narrative
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Theme_(narrative)
All Latin and Greek roots beginning with G
Greek βάσις bath- deep, depth Greek βαθύς (bathús), βάθος (báthos) batholith, bathophobia, bathos, bathymetry, bathyscaphe, bathysphere, isobathic be-, beat-
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/A–G
Fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic
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Fairy_tale
1975 studio album by Stackridge
"Grease Paint Smiles" (Bowkett, Bathos) – 4:04 "Happy in the Lord" (Phil Welton) – 3:51 "Benjamin's Giant Onion" (Bowkett, Bathos) – 4:04 "Pocket Billiards"
Extravaganza_(album)
Genre of electronic literature
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Hypertext_fiction
British rock band
Retrieved 9 March 2026. "Coldplay Consciously Uncouple From Trademark Bathos On Appealing Ghost Stories". Spin. 17 May 2014. Archived from the original
Coldplay
1995 film by Victor Salva
intriguing ideas lie there on the screen, jumbled and unrealized. It leads up to bathos, not pathos, because not enough attention was paid to the underlying truth
Powder_(1995_film)
Topics referred to by the same term
by Abraxas "Squaring The Circle", track on 2004 avant-garde metal album Bathos by Aarni Squaring the Circle (1984 play), 1984 television play by Sir Tom
Squaring the circle (disambiguation)
Squaring_the_circle_(disambiguation)
Literary genre
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Science_fiction
Dramatic principle
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Chekhov's_gun
Category of creative works based on stylistic and/or thematic criteria
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Genre
English indie rock band
(18 July 2024). "Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review – bland bathos from one-time biggest band in the world". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 September
Glass_Animals
Fiction in which an adventure forms the main storyline
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Adventure_fiction
2006 novel by Michael Crichton
of Books called it "an unintentionally hilarious emulsion of bombast and bathos", The Washington Post described it as "part lecture, part satire, and mostly
Next_(Crichton_novel)
1937 film by Victor Sjöström
more than moderate. The editing is lame, and turns some of the climaxes to bathos; and certain of the sets smack noticeably of the studio. The dialogue is
Under the Red Robe (1937 film)
Under_the_Red_Robe_(1937_film)
2004 drama film directed by Sebastián Szabó
able to match . . . Ms. Bening walks right up to the edge of melodramatic bathos (the hallmark of the kind of plays in which Julia stars) and then, in a
Being_Julia
Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
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Satire
American film director (1896–1977)
rejoice in his oeuvre's remarkable avoidance of Hollywood's religiosity, bathos, flag-waving, and sentimentality. In addition to his career as a film director
Howard_Hawks
Novel by Joseph Furphy
characters and mundane events he is describing. Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog
Such_Is_Life_(novel)
Narrative technique
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Show,_don't_tell
1993 American film
their Tony-winning roles, Simon intensifies the barrage of belly laughs and bathos. Director Martha Coolidge, whose Rambling Rose was a model of graceful literary
Lost_in_Yonkers_(film)
Characteristic of narration or representation
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Multiperspectivity
Fictional being in a narrative
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Character_(arts)
Process of dynamic characters' transformation
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Character_arc
Written and visual fiction genre
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Action_fiction
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List_of_21st-century_writers
Literary genre
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Psychological_fiction
Element of story structure
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Denouement
Brief work of prose fiction
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Short_story
Short, constantly recurring musical phrase
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Leitmotif
Principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory
underlie the wit of mock-heroic, of literary burlesque, and even a sense of bathos, were dulled in the twentieth-century reader. In continental European debates
Decorum
Story with long setup and no payoff
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Shaggy_dog_story
Scottish classical scholar (1943–1981)
Epistles 1.18.39–66). In: ZPE 23 (1976) 41–43. = Collected Essays, 215–217. Bathos in 'Longinus' and Methodius. In: Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 27
Colin_William_Macleod
Background information within a narrative
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Exposition_(narrative)
British comedy-drama television series
traits of biopics and tragicomedies. Its humour is dark, bleak and contains bathos; it is presented in the form of one-liners. Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian
There_She_Goes_(TV_series)
Narrative technique
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Plot_twist
2011 novel by Derek Landy
Skulduggery and Valkyrie and the brutal nature of the story to create an intense bathos. Plenty of scenes are deliciously violent and hard-hitting, but these are
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
Skulduggery_Pleasant:_Death_Bringer
Self-consistent fictional setting
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Fictional_universe
Form of visual entertainment
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Cantastoria
Literary genre
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Crime_fiction
1965 film by Guy Green
the sort of idea that in lesser hands might easily slip from pathos into bathos. Green's style is simple, forceful and true, and he habitually activates
A_Patch_of_Blue
Story plot device
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MacGuffin
Main character of a creative work
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Protagonist
Style of literary fiction and art
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Magical_realism
BATHOS
BATHOS
BATHOS
BATHOS
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
To Enlighten; Lighten Up
Female
Welsh
Welsh name, possibly GWENHWYVACH means "Gwengwy the less." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of the sister of Guinevere (Gwenhwyvar). She may have been wife to Mordred.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Mother of the world, Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Durga
Male
Arthurian
, a knight of the Round Table; lover of Enidè.
Boy/Male
Biblical
A chiding; a garment; his measure.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
A Classical Melody; Wife of Lord Ganesh
Boy/Male
Tamil
Vriksh | வà¯à®°à¯€à®•à¯à®·
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Hail Mail
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Christian
Modern Invented Name; Victory
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
The Great Princess; : Fortunate; An Ancient City of India; Who has Everything
BATHOS
BATHOS
BATHOS
BATHOS
BATHOS
a.
Having the character of bathos.
n.
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.