See also: Anticlimax Anticlimactic Antidote Anticipate Antigen Antithesis Anticipation Antihero Antipathy Antithetical Antiquated Antibody Antics Antiquity Anticipated Antisocial Antibiotic Antidiuretic Anti Hero Antitrust
1. Anticlimax is a rhetorical term for an abrupt shift from a serious or noble tone to a less exalted one—often for comic effect.
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2. Anticlimax is the term used to describe a disappointing turn of events or "let down" that occurs after tension builds in a text. In a typical plot, action rises until a climax, the point at which a character must make a decision that changes the course of action or at which events come to a head and one outcome or another is inevitable.
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3. Anti-climax or Anticlimax (that is, the opposite of climax in its various meanings) may refer to: Anticlimax (narrative), a literary element Anticlimax (figure of speech), a rhetorical device Anticlimax (book), A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, a 1990 book by Sheila Jeffreys
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4. • An Anticlimax can occur in any of the performing arts as well as in literature • Disappointing conclusion or sudden descent from the important to the trivial • A figure of speech that consists of the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous one
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5. “Anticlimax” is a feel-good song about a not so good situation
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6. Anticlimax was published in 1990 and many of Jeffreys’ predictions for the future of feminism have borne poisonous fruit, likely well beyond her worst imaginings (and certainly mine): sexual liberation is viewed as the same thing as women’s liberation, promiscuit
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7. "Anticlimax is the most impressing and critical book that I have read in a long time
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8. Anticlimax, a figure of speech that consists of the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous one
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9. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock uses Anticlimax liberally; an example is
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10. "Anticlimax" rolls out of the gate with a cool, Stones-esque confidence, resting on the otherworldly lead guitar of "Groovy" Mike Liebman (formerly of VEXX and RIK & THE PIGS).
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11. R/Anticlimax: Anything which builds up to an Anticlimax
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12. Anticlimax is Asterix’s first cousin, once removed, from Brittany.
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13. Anticlimax is a rhetorical or literary device used in literature or speaking to convey a disappointing situation
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14. You can describe something as an Anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected
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15. After such a promising approach, the cave in itself was something of an Anticlimax
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16. It was sad that his international career should end in such Anticlimax.
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17. The arrangement of the words or clauses in a descending order is called Anticlimax or bathos
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18. ‘a sense of Anticlimax and incipient boredom’ ‘Of course, he was eventually to read the novel in its original Spanish, but as he was to describe it, the experience was a disappointing Anticlimax.’
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19. 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
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20. Some might say, discovering Anticlimax, that he’s an impressive DJ
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21. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Anticlimax (Tcheaz) on your desktop or mobile device.
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22. Anticlimax is a rhetorical device in which an ending or conclusion is unsatisfying to the audience
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23. Anticlimax: 1 n a disappointing decline after a previous rise “the Anticlimax of a brilliant career” Type of: downfall , fall a sudden decline in strength or number or importance n a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one Synonyms: bathos Type of: close , closing , conclusion , end , ending the last section of a communication
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24. Synonyms for Anticlimax include bathos, comedown, disappointment, disillusionment, letdown, let-down, non-event, decline, deflation and descent
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25. Anticlimax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae within the superfamily Truncatelloidea.
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26. Species within the genus Anticlimax include:
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27. An Anticlimax is a climax that isn't: a Gainax Ending is a climax that comes from nowhere
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28. Definition of Anticlimax noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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29. His first day in the job, however, became a bit of an Anticlimax He had been looking forward so much to starting this new phase of his career, but after detectives coming out of the woodwork and all the recent events he found the routine mind numbingly boring; in fact, induction took up most of the day.
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30. ‘a sense of Anticlimax and incipient boredom’ ‘Of course, he was eventually to read the novel in its original Spanish, but as he was to describe it, the experience was a disappointing Anticlimax.’
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31. Synonyms for Anticlimax in Free Thesaurus
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32. 5 synonyms for Anticlimax: disappointment, letdown, comedown, bathos, bathos
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33. What are synonyms for Anticlimax?
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34. An Anticlimax is the revelation of something trivial following the anticipation of something significant
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35. There was Anticlimax in Bear Cat after the guns had ceased to boom
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36. Yes, as you say, a Mamie is an Anticlimax to one's best endeavours
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37. It would have been seeking an Anticlimax to solicit any more in the building
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38. It was, to their minds, an Anticlimax, a pusillanimous surrender
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39. Examples from the Corpus Anticlimax • Having looked forward with anticipation to the Bölkow, I wondered whether I might find it an Anticlimax
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40. • Within a few months she would solo, in a flight that was a bit of an Anticlimax
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41. • It turned into something of an Anticlimax
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42. Anticlimax definition: You can describe something as an Anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
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43. Definition of Anticlimax (noun): something disappointing
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44. Definition and synonyms of Anticlimax from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education.
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45. This is the British English definition of Anticlimax.View American English definition of Anticlimax.
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46. As a result, the subversion of the climax, the Anticlimax, is probably almost as old
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47. The Anticlimax is when you're set up for a climax, such
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48. See authoritative translations of Anticlimax in Spanish with example sentences and audio pronunciations.
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49. What does Anticlimax mean? Anticlimax is defined as something which turns out to be far less meaningful or exciting than it was built up to be
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50. Anticlimax - I.Boat (Bordeaux) / Oct 2012
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51. It was an Anticlimax when they abandoned the game
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52. The holiday itself was rather an Anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it
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53. Travelling in Europe was something of an Anticlimax after the years he'd spent in
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54. The danger at this point is that a speaker will undo all the good wrought in his address by dragging in new or irrelevant material, or by indulging in a witless Anticlimax
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ANTICLIMAX [ˌan(t)ēˈklīˌmaks, ˌanˌtīˈklīˌmaks]
an event or experience that causes disappointment because it is less exciting than was expected or because it happens immediately after a much more interesting or exciting event: When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens. Coming home after a trip somewhere is always a bit of an anticlimax.
Examples of Anticlimax in Literature In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses anti -climax to create humor in a scene between Romeo and his cousin, Benvolio. In the scene, Benvolio is attempting to identify the root of Romeo's depression. He identifies that Romeo and lovesick and asks his cousin who he is in love with.
Anticlimax is a rhetorical term for an abrupt shift from a serious or noble tone to a less exalted one-often for comic effect. Adjective: anticlimactic . Adjective: anticlimactic. A common type of rhetorical anticlimax is the figure of catacosmesis: the ordering of words from the most significant to the least significant.