Climax

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A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Climax (narrative)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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