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Literary anticlimax (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bathos

(Other definitions for bathos that I've seen before include "Ludicrous descent of mood in writing" , "Change from serious to trivial (in literature)" , "Unintentional slip from serious to trivial mood" , "Unintentional lowering of tone" , "Anticlimax by unintentional shift from the sublime to the trivial" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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