bathos vs meiosis

bathos

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

  • immaturity: lack of serious 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 

  • Depth. 

  • 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. 

meiosis

noun
  • A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is. 

  • Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes. 

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