Stylistic Devices – Climax
Climax (figure of speech)
Climax refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.
Examples of climax
These are some examples:
1.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it gins to bud;
A brittle glass that’s broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.Shakespear, The Passionate Pilgrim
2.
“There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
3.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream