bathos
/ˈbeɪθɒs/noun
Middle School
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Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
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A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
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An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
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A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
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Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
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A hyperbole: excessiveness.
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The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
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A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.