bathos

/ˈbeɪθɒs/noun
Middle School
1

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

2

A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

3

An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

4

A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

5

Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.

6

A hyperbole: excessiveness.

7

The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

8

A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.