anticlimax
Noun
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Noun
anticlimax (plural anticlimaxes)
- A failed or reverse climax, particularly:
- (narratology) An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict.
- (rhetoric) An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintentional) from the dignity of the idea which the speaker or writer appeared to be aiming for.
- (partial) bathos
- climax
- (literary) cliffhanger
- (rhetoric) auxesis
- Portuguese: anticlímax
- Spanish: anticlímax
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