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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Climax Noun Synonyms: culmination, height, acme, apex, summit, zenith, apogee, peak, high point, maximum, supreme moment
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Rhetorical Noun Synonyms: artificial, contrived, for effect, unanswerable, not literal
Rhetorical Adjective Synonyms: stylistic, linguistic, poetic, expressive, oratorical
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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
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
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
Business / Finance / Selling Climax: A sudden drop in security prices as sellers dump their holdings. MORE
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
Entertainment / Literature / Rhetorical Figures: Figures of speech such as schemes and tropes. MORE