Figure of speech Climax
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Climax appears all over the place, and it's easy to identify if you know what you're looking for. The definition of climax includes any use of language that is characterized by a feeling of mounting intensity across successive words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, but it's generally agreed that something is only an example of climax if tension is built over the course of three or more discrete words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. So for example, the following phrases do not count as climax, since each one contains only two discrete ideas:
"If you think that's bad, it gets worse."
"To infinity, and beyond!"
"Out of the frying pan and into the fire!"
Here's a handful of examples that docontain at least three discrete words or clauses in order of increasing importance, which qualifies them as examples of climax:
Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.
Since concord was lost, friendship was lost; fidelity was lost; liberty was lost—all was lost.
"If you think that's bad, it gets worse."
"To infinity, and beyond!"
"Out of the frying pan and into the fire!"
Here's a handful of examples that docontain at least three discrete words or clauses in order of increasing importance, which qualifies them as examples of climax:
Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.
Since concord was lost, friendship was lost; fidelity was lost; liberty was lost—all was lost.
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