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More details. The tradition, which originated in classical times with an anonymous burlesque of Homer, the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and the Mice), was honed to a fine art in the late If a long narrative poem should satisfy all the tests of epic poetry, but if the subject which is celebrated be of a trivial nature, like the cutting off a lock of a woman’s hair, which is the story that is related in Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”, then such a poem is called a mock-epic Perhaps the best-known example of mock-epic poem, it employs highly exaggerated language and an elevated tone to describe the stealing of a lock of hair from a young society woman named Belinda by an equally privileged young baron and the “war” that ensues as a result this act The strategy of Pope’s mock-epic is not to mock the form itself, but to mock his society in its very failure to rise to epic standards, exposing its pettiness by casting it against the grandeur of the traditional epic subjects and the bravery and fortitude of epic heroes: Pope’s mock-heroic treatment in The Rape of the Lock under This chapter explores the relation of mock epic to earlier genres. Quick Reference. A mockepic is a literary parody of heroic style. It imitates serious charactersMock-epic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject. A satirical form that produces ridicule and humour by the presentation of low characters or trivial subjects in the lofty style of classical epic or heroic poems The Dunciads owe their form to a late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century hybrid of ancient and modern, the mock-epic or mock-heroic poem. Epic, which reflected on the A mock epic, also known as a mock-heroic or heroic-comic work, is a form of satire where trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated with the grandeur and gravity of an Download Free PDF. View PDF. Difference between Epic and Mock Epic The Epic The epic is generally defined as a long narrative poem on a great and serious subject, written in Download & View Mock Epic as PDF for free. It discusses Italian romance epic, especially Ariosto's Orlando furioso, showi Words,;Mockepic, also called mockheroic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.