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Climax (figure of speech)
In
rhetoric
, a
climax
(,
klîmax
, "staircase" or "ladder") is a
figure of speech
in which
words
,
phrases
, or
clauses
are arranged in order of increasing importance. In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as
auxesis
( "growth").
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