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bathos
Bathos describes a specific kind of failure in artistic or rhetorical execution where a grand emotional build-up is punctured by something mundane. It creates a jarring contrast that often results in unintentional comedy, making the speaker or writer appear foolish for their misplaced ambition. While it can be used accidentally, skilled satirists employ it deliberately to mock pomposity or false sentimentality.
As a mass noun referring to a literary or rhetorical effect, bathos is treated as uncountable. It does not have a plural form in standard usage, as it describes a quality of tone rather than a discrete object. One does not encounter multiple bathoses, but rather an instance of bathos.