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Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the banal (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bathos

(Other definitions for bathos that I've seen before include "Ludicrous descent of mood in writing" , "Trite anticlimax" , "Serious-to-trivial switch" , "let-down" , "Change from serious to trivial (in literature)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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