Emotional climax:
He was pleased when the child began to adventure across floors on hand and knees; he was gratified, when she managed the trick of balancing herself on two legs; he was delighted when she first said ‘ta-ta’; and he was rejoiced when she recognized him and smiled at him.” (Alan Paton).
Quantitative climax:
They looked at hundreds of houses; they climbed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens. (Maugham).
The indispensable constituents of climax:
a) the distributional constituent: close proximity of the component parts arranged in increasing order of importance or significance;
b) the syntactical pattern: parallel construct ions with possible lexical repetition;
c) the connotative constituent: the explanatory context which helps ‘the reader to grasp the gradation, as no...ever once in all his life, nobody ever, nobody, No beggars (Dickens); deep and wide, horrid, dark and tall (Byron); veritable (gem of a city).
Anticlimax - the ideas expressed may be arranged in ascending order of significance, or they may be poetical or elevated, but the final one, which the reader expects to be the culminating one, as in climax, is trifling or farcical. There is a sudden drop from the lofty or serious to the ridiculous:
In days of yore, a mighty rumbling was heard in a Mountain. It was said to be in labour, and multitudes flocked together, from far and near, to see what it would produce. After long expectation and many wise conjectures from the by-standers - out popped, a Mouse (Aesop’s fable “The Mountain in Labour.”).
This war-like speech, received with many a cheer, Had filled them with desire of fame, and beer. (Byron)
‘The soil is sacred’, he said. ‘But I wish it grew more potatoes’ (E. Hemingway/ “A Farewell to Arms”)
Antithesis - is based on relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs, a device bordering between stylistics and logic:
Youth is lovely, age is lonely,
Youth is fiery, age is frosty (Longfellow).
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