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
- (literature) Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
Word Forms
- mock-heroics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include heroicomical, heroicomic, postheroic, picaresque, literatesque, literary.
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