mockheroic

English

adj
Definitions
  • (literature) Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.

Etymology

Compound from English mock (imitation, ridicule) + English heroic.

Origin

English

heroic

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