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In the Guildhall yard the cab would happen, if it happened at all, naturally and without any effect of bathos.
THE INCREDIBLE HONEYMOONE. NESBITThe arrangement of the words or clauses in a descending order is called anticlimax or bathos.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERTo say that the morsels fetched their weight in gold would be the reverse of exaggeration—mere bathos.
THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDSFREDERICK BOYLE"The ghost of God," I answered, in what she must have thought a tone of bathos!
THE LAST MIRACLEM. P. SHIELHe is prone to eccentric flights, to bathos and absurdities.
OLD TRAILS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIERFRANK H. SEVERANCEThe bathos of this anti-climax to martyrdom was too grotesque.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILLThe plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 84, OCTOBER, 1864VARIOUSWhen balked by the subtlety of a competitor in trade, by their bathos they contrive to break a match.
THE HINDOOS AS THEY ARESHIB CHUNDER BOSEOn another occasion he described the square as "the nation's last phase of artistic bathos."
THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTONTHOMAS WRIGHTPictures of poets in garrets will soon not be understood; bathos will be at a premium!
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 17, ISSUE 479, MARCH 5, 1831VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO BATHOS
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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