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Climactic   Listen
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Climactic  adj.  Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series. "A fourth kind of parallelism... is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called "ascending rhythm")."






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"Climactic" Quotes from Famous Books



... at that, and studied me in the failing light, studied me with a sharp look of interrogation on his face. I had the feeling, as he did so, of something epochal in the air, as though the drama of life were narrowing up to its climactic last moment. Yet I felt helpless to direct the course of that drama. I nursed the impression that we stood at the parting of the ways, that we stood hesitating at the fork of two long and lonely trails which struck off across an ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer



Words linked to "Climactic" :   anticlimactic



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