Anticlimax: A disappointingly trivial or deflating conclusion to a sequence of events that had been building toward significance.
How to apply it: Analyze how anticlimax subverts expectations and what the deflation reveals—whether satirical, tragic, or absurdist.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Short Fiction III
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