bathos
/ˈbeɪθɒs/noun
mass noun
- (especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous(尤指文学作品中的)突降法。
派生词
bathetic
/bəˈθetɪk/ adjective词源
mid 17th cent. (first recorded in the Greek sense): from Greek, literally 'depth'. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th cent.