单词	bathos
释义	bathosba‧thos /ˈbeɪθɒs $ -θɑːs/ noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINbathos Origin: 1700-1800 Greek ‘depth’, from bathys ‘deep’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a drama that is full of bathos EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But Phillips' gift is in deftly leavening bathos with pathos. Skillfully using bathos, he emptied the story of any heroic dimensions and converted it into farce. Such titles and ornamentation can create the effect of bathos, or comic undermining of what you do achieve. The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner. There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos. Thesaurus THESAURUStechniques used in language► metaphor a way of describing something by referring to it as something different and suggesting that it has similar qualities to that thing: · The beehive is a metaphor for human society. ► simile an expression that describes something by comparing it with something else, using the words as or like, for example ‘as white as snow’: · The poet uses the simile ‘soft like clay’. ► irony the use of words that are the opposite of what you really mean, often in order to be amusing: · ‘I’m so happy to hear that,’ he said, with more than a trace of irony in his voice. ► bathos a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not important: · The play is too sentimental and full of bathos. ► hyperbole a way of describing something by saying that it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is – used especially to excite people’s feelings: · In his speeches, he used a lot of hyperbole.· journalistic hyperbole ► alliteration the use of several words together that all begin with the same sound, in order to make a special effect, especially in poetry: · the alliteration of the ‘s’ sound in ‘sweet birds sang softly’ ► imagery the use of words to describe ideas or actions in a way that makes the reader connect the ideas with pictures in their mind: · the use of water imagery in Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’· She uses the imagery of a bird’s song to represent eternal hope. ► rhetorical question a question that you ask as a way of making a statement, without expecting an answer: · When he said ‘how can these attitudes still exist in a civilized society?’, he was asking a rhetorical question. WORD SETS► Literature acrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun in writing, a play etc, a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not important ► see thesaurus at language
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