mock-heroic

English

Etymology

From mock +‎ heroic.

Adjective

mock-heroic (comparative more mock-heroic, superlative most mock-heroic)

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

Translations

Noun

mock-heroic (plural mock-heroics)

  1. (literature) A work in the mockheroic style.
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