Climax

A clause, a sentence, a paragraph, or any literary composition whatsoever, is said to end with a climax when, by an artistic arrangement, the more effective is made to follow the le effective in regular gradation. Any great departure from the order of ascending strength is called an anti-climax . Here are some examples of climax: "Give all diligence; add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godline ; and to godline , brotherly kindne ; and to brotherly kindne , charity." "What is every year of a wise man's life but a criticism on the past! Those whose life is the shortest live long enough to laugh at one half of it; the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the sage both, and the Christian all." "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how expre and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!"