All 6 Uses of
climax
in
Black Boy
- Climax.†
Chpt 1.3
- A shouted climax.†
Chpt 1.3
- The climax came at noon one summer day.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- I strove to master words, to make them disappear, to make them important by making them new, to make them melt into a rising spiral of emotional stimuli, each greater than the other, each feeding and reinforcing the other, and all ending in an emotional climax that would drench the reader with a sense of a new world.†
Chpt 2.15
- To rush my worries to a climax, my mother also became ill.†
Chpt 2.16
- The tug of war between the two elderly men reached a climax one winter day at noon.†
Chpt 2.17
Definitions:
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(1)
(climax as in: climax of the story) the most exciting or important part of a story, musical piece, or other thing that has a series of events
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A comprehensive dictionary will describe other or more specific senses of climax.