Bathos
The báthos ( Greek neuter βάθος , "depth") stands in the figurative sense for lowness and sunkness. The term is used especially in literary studies .
In literature, a bathos is the juxtaposition of a higher value and a lower value. It contributes to the voluntary or involuntary comedy of a text or speech.
Example:
"The explosion destroyed all the houses across the street and my mailbox."
Immanuel Kant uses the word Bathos ironically in the Prolegomena (1783). He distances himself from the "metaphysically great men" and assigns himself his place in the lowlands of experience:
“High towers and the metaphysically tall men similar to them, around whom there is generally a lot of wind, are not in front of me. My place is the fertile bathos of experience. "