CLIMATE

the general state of the| head, atmosphere in respect to temperature | waterix and humidity. The climate of a place} Dumbs depends mainly on its latitude; but there} on the Sre certain modifying causes, the chief of | in imp Which are—(1) altitude of the place, (2) CcLY’ its proximity to the sea, (3) the winds that} wife o nsually ‘eles and (4) the nature of the} On hi soil, and whether wooded or bare. murde! CLIMAX, “« ladder,” is a rhetorical| Agisth dovice in which the conclusion is led up to| non’s: Dy o series of particulars, each one more} afterw: suiking than the preceding. ‘The last} OOA statement, or proposition, is often called} by pre the “‘climax.” (See 1 Sam, iv. 17.) The {c When details of slight importance succeed | submer the climax, an anticlimaz is reached. deposit CLIVE, [s. 102]