bathos vs descending

bathos

noun
  • Depth. 

  • immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic. 

  • banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic. 

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

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

  • hyperbole: excessiveness 

  • Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. 

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

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

descending

noun
  • A descent. 

adj
  • Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. 

  • Moving or sloping downwards. 

  • Becoming lower in pitch. 

  • Causing a sequence to follow a descending order. 

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