1) Bathos 2) Comedown 3) Disappointment 4) Failure 5) Letdown 6) Nonevent
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1) Disappointing conclusion 2) Downfall 3) English-language book 4) Fall 5) Letdown 6) Letdown of a kind 7) Not for the summit 8) Novelistic disappointment 9) Ultimate letdown
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- a disappointing decline after ad previous rise
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
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[1990 book] Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution is a 1990 book about the sexual revolution by Sheila Jeffreys. ==Summary== Jeffreys argues that the hidden agenda of the sexual revolution of the 1960s was to teach women to eroticize and enjoy their own subordination within heterosexual sex. She contends that heterosex...
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expression whose last part is decreased in effect from the prior part
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• (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.
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An anticlimax can occur in any of the performing arts as well as in literature. When the audience is expecting a zenith or apex in the action and the dramatic point does not occur the disappointment is referred to as an anticlimax. It is often used to convey the ordinary events in the life of a character and can also effectively be used to distract...
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a figure of speech that consists of the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous one. Alexander ...
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(also called bathos) a drop, often sudden and unexpected, from a dignified or important idea or situ
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An`ti·cli'max noun (Rhet.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of
climax . It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: « Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl of Mar.»
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n] - a disappointing decline after ad previous rise 2. [n] - a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
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noun a disappointing decline after a previous rise; `the anticlimax of a brilliant career`
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Disappointing conclusion or sudden descent from the important to the trivial, for example, the placing of the least impressive item last in a list or sequence. Anticlimax is often used in literature as comedy but can have a serious side, particularly in tragedy or tragicomedy, when characters meet their deaths pathetically
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an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected. · a descent in power, quality, dignity, etc.; a disappointing, weak, or inglorious conclusion: After serving as President, he may find life in retirement an anticlimax. · a noticeable or ludicrous descent from lofty ideas or expressio...
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a disappointing decline after a previous rise
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