other words for mock-heroic
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Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem, written to ridicule the Puritan and Parliamentarian party.
It is a mock-heroic tale, in dog-Latin, of a country feud on the Fifeshire lands of his old friends the Cunninghams.
The ballads are mock-heroic, parodies of the ballads of chivalry.
But in pure comedy, mixed with farce and mock-heroic parody, he belongs to the school of "rare Ben."
The birth of Orlando gives occasion for a mock-heroic passage, in which Pulci is parodied to the letter.
The voice and mock-heroic attitude of the speaker was enough to relieve the general embarrassment with a laugh.
The "Rape of the Lock" is his most successful effort, and is the best of all mock-heroic poems.
Then he went on to speak in a mock-heroic style of the rights of women.
Pope is seen at his best in his satires and epistles, and in the mock-heroic.
Put into everyday English the whole scheme sounded visionary and mock-heroic.