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ANTICLIMAX (i.e. the opposite to " climax ") , in rhetoric, an abrupt declension (either deliberate or unintended) on the part
speaker
idea which he appeared to be aiming at; as in the following well-known distich:" The great
Dalhousie , he, the god of war,Lieutenant
earl
An anticlimax can be intentionally employed only for a jocular or satiric purpose. It frequently partakes of the nature of antithesis , as" Die and endow a college or a cat." It is often difficult to distinguish between "anticlimax" and bathos "; but the former is more decidedly a relative term
elevation
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