climax

A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.

Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]

Climax, by steps advancing, onward goes Higher and still more high to an impassion'd close.

An instance of such an ascending series.

[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.

A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly

In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity.

A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series

When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.

To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).

Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.

Frank had two bouts in October of 1954, losing them both, and then climaxed his career with a 6-round decision victory over Mickey Warner on December 1, 1954.

To form the climax to; to be the climax of.

A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.

A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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