In literature, bathos is deployed as a tool to signal a sudden shift from the lofty and sublime to the trivial or absurd. Often, it marks an unexpected descent from grand sentiment or heroic rhetoric into banality, as when a text appears to deliberately undercut its own dramatic buildup [1, 2]. At times, the term critiques a writer’s failure to maintain elevating tension, reducing otherwise noble imagery to crass ebullience or common indifference [3, 4]. In other instances, the deliberate use of bathos challenges readers to distinguish between genuine emotional appeal and mere excess, underscoring the fine line between effective rhetoric and an unintended anticlimax [5, 6].