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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
English artist and writer (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
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
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
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
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)
Device to resolve the plot of a dramatic work
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Deus_ex_machina
Type of narrative convention
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Genre_convention
1908 play by Percy MacKaye
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)
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
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)
Dramatic literary form
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Play_(theatre)
Second most important character in a narrative
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Deuteragonist
Central topic, subject, or message within a narrative
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Theme_(narrative)
Narrator whose credibility is compromised
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Unreliable_narrator
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
Character of a work actively opposing the protagonist
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Antagonist
Story in a nested narration that brackets one or more embedded stories
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Frame_story
Film and video terminology
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Crossover_(fiction)
Art of persuasion
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Rhetoric
Plot device used in fiction
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Cliffhanger
Literary genre
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Fantasy
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)
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List_of_genres
Narrative technique
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In_medias_res
Genre of fiction about fiction
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Metafiction
Imaginary community with desirable qualities
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Utopia
Literary genre
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Mystery_fiction
Character who contrasts with another character of a narrative work
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Foil_(narrative)
Nonfictional motion picture
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Documentary_film
Brief work of prose fiction
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Short_story
Community or society that is undesirable or frightening
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Dystopia
Literary element
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Story_structure
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)
Social and cultural sharing of stories
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Storytelling
Stock character in literary works
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Swashbuckler
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)
Genre of prose fiction with a roguish hero
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Picaresque_novel
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
Expressive culture shared by particular groups
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Folklore
Fictional being in a narrative
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Character_(arts)
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
Representation that conveys deeper meaning
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Artistic_symbol
Narrative device used in literature
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Stream_of_consciousness
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
Ancient Norse prose stories and histories
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Saga
Genre of narrative presented in a long format
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Epic_(genre)
Long fictional narrative story
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Novel
American actor, writer, and screenwriter
praised his performance: "Chester's Adam, effortlessly able to slide from bathos to pathos and back again with none of the smarmy schmaltz of sitcom humanism
Craig_Chester
Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
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Satire
Literary device
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Allegory
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
Separation of performers and audience
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Fourth_wall
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
Shared fictional universe based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft
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Cthulhu_Mythos
Style of fiction storytelling involving narration
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Diegesis
Fictional prose narrative form
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Novella
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)
Element of story structure
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Denouement
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
Type of fictional character
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Antihero
Romance, horror and death literary genre
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Gothic_fiction
Literary genre
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Science_fiction
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
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
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)
Main character of a creative work
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Protagonist
Process of dynamic characters' transformation
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Character_arc
Asian narrative technique
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Kishōtenketsu
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
Study of narrative structures
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Narratology
Group encountering art
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Audience
Form of Japanese street theatre and storytelling
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Kamishibai
Indian actress (born 1957)
her effective body language and gestures, lift her character far beyond bathos". Among other accolades, she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance
Dimple_Kapadia
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)
Fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic
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Fairy_tale
Genre of electronic literature
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Hypertext_fiction
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List_of_20th-century_writers
Story plot device
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MacGuffin
Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
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Fable
Narrative technique
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Show,_don't_tell
List of methods used to convey information in a narrative
liberty." Bathos An abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. While often unintended, bathos may be used
List_of_narrative_techniques
Figure of speech of implicit comparison
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Metaphor
Narrative technique
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Plot_twist
Dramatic structure
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Three-act_structure
national events, particularly heroic actions and military victories. bathos Bathos refers to rhetorical anticlimax—an abrupt transition from a lofty style
Glossary_of_literary_terms
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Hybrid_novel
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
Genre of fiction that is set in the past
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Historical_fiction
2010 studio album by Linkin Park
record's composition as "uninhibited hooks, daffy left turns, piano-soaked bathos, explorations of the human relationship with technology, [and] a complete
A_Thousand_Suns
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)
Prediction that causes itself to become true
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Self-fulfilling_prophecy
Division or unit of a drama
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Act_(drama)
1964 film by Cy Endfield
whenever there is a pause in the action the script plunges relentlessly into bathos, with feuding officers, comic other ranks, and all the other trappings of
Zulu_(1964_film)
Dramatic principle
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Chekhov's_gun
Novel written as a series of letters
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Epistolary_novel
Creatives' use of symbolism or figurative language to add depth to their work
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Imagery
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