Mock
Epic: A comic incongruity between
subject and style.
It is
not a parody, though some specific passages are parodies, for example of Milton’s
style in Paradise Lost.
Characteristics:
1. Statement of Theme 7. Epic Battle--Ombre
2. Invocation of the Muse 8. Epic Meal
3. Epic Addresses 9. Epic Similes
4. Machinery--the Sylphs
5. Epic altar--Belinda’s Vanity
6. Three Planes of Action
(Underground--Cave of Spleen; Olympus--the Sylphs)