: ridiculing or burlesquing heroic style, character, or action
a mock-heroic poem
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James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Poem 3 is playful: a mock-heroic eulogy for the sparrow, now dead, whom the poet blames for making his sweetheart’s eyes swollen and red—one of a very few references to Lesbia’s physical appearance.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The mock-heroic plenitude—a page, say, on Waddington’s jigsaw map of the British Isles, or four pages on schoolyard fights, including a close study of the resident bully—is a way of insisting on one’s importance and denying it at the same time.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Poem 3 is playful: a mock-heroic eulogy for the sparrow, now dead, whom the poet blames for making his sweetheart’s eyes swollen and red—one of a very few references to Lesbia’s physical appearance.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Mock-heroic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mock-heroic. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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