From top, left to right: Scranton Electric Building, St. Peter's Cathedral, Downtown Scranton, Scranton City Hall, and Courthouse Square Motto(s): Embracing Our People, Our Traditions and Our Future Location of Scranton in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Climax (rhetoric) In rhetoric, a climax (Greek: ÎºÎ»á¿Î¼Î±Î¾, klÃ®max, lit. staircase or ladder) is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.[1][2] In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (lit. growth).
In rhetoric , it refers to varying forms of increase: hyperbole (overstatement): intentionally overstating a point, its importance, or its significance climax (ascending series): a series of clauses of increasing force amplificatio (rhetorical increase): extension or exaggerated, needless repetition of arguments to emphasize the point In ancient Greece , it was also sometimes known as auxanein (growing).