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climax

Figure of speech and literary device in which words or phrases are arranged in a gradually ascending scale of importance in order to build up interest, force, or emotion. The climax is the moment of maximum intensity. It is a feature of oratory. When a sequence apparently moving to a climax is, unexpectedly, interrupted by a weaker element, it is described as anticlimax, and, if particularly absurd, bathos.



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THERE is a climax to everything, to every state of feeling as well as to every position in life.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination of late Directors of a Royal British Bank.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Sometimes (generally, in Comedy) the Main Climax is identical with the Outcome; sometimes (regularly in Tragedy) the Main Climax is a turning point and comes near the middle of the story.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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