Bathos
Bathos is the placement of the least important item in a series anticlimactically at the end where the reader expects something dramatic. It is usually used humorously. “I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's.” Much Ado About Nothing. 5.2.95. See Climax.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Bathos
What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?
Read the QuoteChamberlain
What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?
Lovell
Faith, my lord,
I hear of none but the new proclamation
That’s clapped upon the court gate.
’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases
Are grown so catching.
Chamberlain
What is ’t for?
Lovell
The reformation of our traveled gallants
That fill the court with Bathosquarrels,
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You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate
Read the QuoteCelia
You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate.
We must have your doublet and hose plucked
over your head and show the world what the bird
hath done to her own nest.
O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.
Rosalind
O coz,
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Madam, you must come to your uncle
Read the QuoteUrsula
Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder’s
old coil at home. It is proved my Lady Hero
hath been falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio
mightily abused, and Don John is the author of all,
who is fled and gone. Will you come presently?
Ursula exits.
I will live in thy heart,
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