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mock-heroic
[ mok-hi-roh-ik ]
adjective
- imitating or burlesquing that which is heroic, as in manner, character, or action:
mock-heroic dignity.
- of or relating to a form of satire in which trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated in the ceremonious manner and with the elevated language and elaborate devices characteristic of the heroic style.
noun
- an imitation or burlesque of something heroic.
mock-heroic
adjective
- (of a literary work, esp a poem) imitating the style of heroic poetry in order to satirize an unheroic subject, as in Pope's The Rape of the Lock
noun
- burlesque imitation of the heroic style or of a single work in this style
Other 51Թ Forms
- dz-·i·· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mock-heroic1
Example Sentences
I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing.
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.”
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.”
She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.
Black recalled the other day, slipping into the booming, mock-heroic voice that serves as one of his trademarks as a movie star.
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