Rhetorical Climax

Entertainment / Literature / Rhetorical Climax: Also known as auxesis and crescendo, this refers to an artistic arrangement of a list of items so that they appear in a sequence of increasing importance. See rhetorical schemes for more information. The opposite of climax is bathos.
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Other Words for Climax

Climax Noun Synonyms: culmination, height, acme, apex, summit, zenith, apogee, peak, high point, maximum, supreme moment
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Other Words for Rhetorical

Rhetorical Noun Synonyms: artificial, contrived, for effect, unanswerable, not literal
Rhetorical Adjective Synonyms: stylistic, linguistic, poetic, expressive, oratorical
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Literary Climax

Entertainment / Literature / Literary Climax: (From Greek word for 'ladder') The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. It is also the peak o MORE

Rhetorical Question

Lifestyle / Poetry / Rhetorical Question: The poet asks a question without expecting to learn anything from the response, or to pose any difficulty for the reader, the answer being something that the poet already implies and the reader infers MORE

Rhetorical Substition

Entertainment / Literature / Rhetorical Substition: The manipulation of the caesura to create the effect of a series of different feet in a line of poetry. Contrast with metrical substitution. MORE

Selling Climax

Business / Finance / Selling Climax: A sudden drop in security prices as sellers dump their holdings. MORE

Anticlimax

Entertainment / Literature / Anticlimax: (also called bathos) a drop, often sudden and unexpected, from a dignified or important idea or situation to one that is trivial or humorous. Also a sudden descent from something sublime to something MORE

Rhetorical Figures

Entertainment / Literature / Rhetorical Figures: Figures of speech such as schemes and tropes. MORE