What is the meaning of Bathos?

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

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

  1. An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
  2. A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
  3. Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
  4. A hyperbole: excessiveness.

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

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

Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.

A hyperbole: excessiveness.

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

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

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Source: wiktionary.org

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