Mock Epic | Literary Term - Definition, Characteristic and Examples | Learning The Easy Way

Mock Epic:

Mock epic is a literary work. It is comically / satirically imitated the form and style of the epic. It treating a trivial subject in a lofty manner. It is a poem that deals unimportant things with a heroic manner. It contains epic structure, tone, and even diction but applies minor subject matter. In a mock heroic poem, trivial things and incidents are presented in a heroic manner. Which are just opposite of the heroic. 

Examples:

Alexander Pope's The Rape of The Lock, Geoffrey Chaucer's Nun priest Tale are the examples of mock epic.

Characteristics of Mock Epic:

1. Treating a trivial subject in a lofty manner.

2. Comically / satirically imitated the form and style of the epic.

3. Contains epic structure, tone, and even diction but applies minor subject matter.

4. Trivial things and incidents are presented in a heroic manner.