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An anticlimax or anti-climax is an abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of idea at which they appeared to aim, [10] as in: "The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may.
Death of Caesar, the climax of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.
This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story. [1] In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke. [2] Anti-humor is described as a form of irony or reversal of expectations that may provoke an emotion opposite to humor, such as fear, [3] pain, embarrassment, disgust, awkwardness, or discomfort. [4]
"depth") is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay "Peri Bathous", [1] to describe an amusingly failed attempt at presenting artistic greatness. Bathos has come to refer to rhetorical anticlimax , an abrupt transition from a lofty style or grand topic to a common or vulgar one, occurring either accidentally ...
Anti-climax or anticlimax (that is, the opposite of climax in its various meanings) may refer to: Anticlimax (narrative), a literary element; Anticlimax (figure of speech), a rhetorical device; Anticlimax, a genus of sea snails; Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, a 1990 book by Sheila Jeffreys
A paraprosdokian (/ p ær ə p r ɒ s ˈ d oʊ k i ə n /), or par'hyponoian, is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
On paper, a contemporary feminist spin on “Emmanuelle” sounds like a zesty idea. An ostensible portrait of liberated female sexuality firmly ossified in patriarchal politics, Just Jaeckin’s ...
Catacosmesis is the Greek word for "to set in order". [1] In rhetoric, it refers to a device in which there is a descending order of words or phrases, either in order of importance, dignity or time, and either abrupt or gradual.