LekhoriLekhoriA rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]
An instance of such an ascending series.
[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A number of places in the United States:
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).
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A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.