Climax

Examples Help! What is the definition of Climax? Figure of Speech

How do you define Climax? What is a Climax? The definition of Climax is as follows:

 

English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Climax - a poetic device
Definition: A rhetorical device or figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each is built above its predecessor in impressiveness.

It is also known as auxesis and crescendo refering to an artistic arrangement of a list in which items appear in a sequence of increasing importance

Example: "One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Tennyson, Ulysses

Definition of Climax - a poetic device
 

Examples of Climax in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Climax examples can be found by the most famous poets including Coleridge and Marlowe.

  • "Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God."

  • But she would weep to see today
    how on his skin the swart flies move;
    the dust upon the paper eye
    and the burst stomach like a cave.
    'Vergissmeinnicht' by Keith Douglas

  • The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
    For thy delight each May morning:
    If these delights thy mind may move,
    Then live with me and be my love,
    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe

  • The climax of the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge occurs when the mariner has a change of heart and the albatross falls from his neck.

Examples Help! Use of Climax in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Climax can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Climax

In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Climax make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Climax use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.

Examples Help! Using Climax

Figures of speech such as Climax adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject.

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