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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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