mock-heroic

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Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2021

His delivery is important, too, said Seargeant, “because this compliments the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things.”

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019

This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2015

It is mock-heroic and actually heroic at once.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2014

She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan