Anticlimax vs. Bathos — What's the Difference?

A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise

Bathos (UK: BAY-thoss; Greek: βάθος, lit. "depth") is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", to describe an amusingly failed attempt at presenting artistic greatness.

Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events

An abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.

A sudden change in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of this, as in "He has seen the ravages of war, he has known natural catastrophes, he has been to singles bars" (Woody Allen).

An anticlimax.

A failed or reverse climax, particularly:

Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos

(narratology) An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict.

Banality; triteness.

(rhetoric) An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintentional) from the dignity of the idea which the speaker or writer appeared to be aiming for.

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; - the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.

Depth.

A disappointing decline after ad previous rise;

Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

Anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

Banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

Immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.

Hyperbole: excessiveness

The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Triteness or triviality of style

Insincere pathos

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one