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“
Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friendM. was obliging
enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages
ate
their meat raw.” (Charles Lamb)
Sentences of this type are called
periodic sentences, or
periods. Their function is to
create suspense, to keep the reader in a state of uncertainty and expectation.
Climax (Gradation). Climax is an arrangement of sentences (or the homogeneous
parts of one sentence) which secures a gradual increase in significance, importance, or
emotional tension in the utterance as in:
“It was a lovely city, a beautiful city a fair city,
a veritable get of a city”
Logical climax is based on the relative importance of the component parts looked at
from the point of view of the concepts embodied in them.
Emotional climax is based on the relative emotional tension produced by words with
emotive meaning.
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