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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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It was upon a lighter note, not to end in anticlimax, that Mr. Jenyns concluded his able pamphlet.
THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTIONCARL BECKERIt seemed certain that the next two days must provide the climax or anticlimax of our whole reconnaissance.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURYAfter what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
THE STATUS CIVILIZATIONROBERT SHECKLEYThe Fourth Act is an anticlimax, and shows up the faulty construction of the drama.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 100., JAN. 31, 1891VARIOUSIt was an absurd anticlimax to see that bold, bad gunman being jammed upright to keep him from falling in a heap.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLThen an anticlimax; for suddenly the Irishwoman, followed by her spouse, rushed out and almost received our fire.
WANDERINGS IN PATAGONIAJULIUS BEERBOHMThe arrangement of the words or clauses in a descending order is called anticlimax or bathos.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERAs the day approached, the excitement redoubled until Barbara herself began to fear an anticlimax.
LADY LILITHSTEPHEN MCKENNADecember was fated to hold for him another startling anticlimax.
KENNYLEONA DALRYMPLEBut that he should wish to be a lieutenant-governor, too, is rather an anticlimax.
THE RED CROSS GIRLRICHARD HARDING DAVISWORDS RELATED TO ANTICLIMAX
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.