ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mock-heroic

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Mock-heroic is an adjective meaning (literature) A work in the mockheroic style.

Meaning

(literature) A work in the mockheroic style.

More Meanings

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

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heroicomical, heroicomic, postheroic, picaresque, literatesque, literary.

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