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ANTICLIMAX
From grammar.about.com:
An abrupt shift from a noble tone to a less exalted one–often for comic effect. Contrast with climax.
Etymology:
From the Greek, “Down a ladder”
an-ti-cli-max (American Heritage Dictionary 2003) n.
1. A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
2. Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events: After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.
3. A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it:”Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling ‘for God, for Country and for Yale’ the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language” Time.
