CLIMAX

                                                                        CLIMAX

 It is a figure in which a series of words ,phrases or ideas are arranged in an ascending order of importance or emphasis . Climax comes from the GREEK word 'Klimax' which means a ladder.Just as in a ladder we go up from a lower stage to a higher one,so in climax we gradually rise from a less important idea to a more important one.In the example 'I come, I saw, I conquered'.We note first a series of ;then we note that they are arranged in such a way that their sense rises at every stage in an order of increasing important. The main characteristics of a climax are given bellow: 1)It consists of a series of words ,phrases or ideas. 2)The least significant of them comes first and the most significant one comes last. 3)There is an order or gradation in the arrangement of ideas which process from the lower to the higher.