anticlímax

n. abrupt move from a serious or tense situation to an absurd situation

In rhetoric, climax is a figure of speech, in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. It is sometimes used with anadiplosis, which uses the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses.Climax is from the Greek word for "ladder".Examples:"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." 1 Corinthians 13:13"I think we've reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity, but for life upon the earth." George Wald A Generation in Search of a Future, March 4, 1969."...Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIII
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Noun
1. a disappointing decline after ad previous rise; "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
(hypernym) fall, downfall
2. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
(synonym) bathos
(hypernym) conclusion, end, close, closing, ending
(part-holonym) story

n. anticlimax, bathos

n. anticlimax, abrupt move from a serious or tense situation to an absurd situation