what is the difference between tricolon and climax?

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what is the difference between tricolon and climax?
tricolon includes asending tricoln and descending tricolon, then is asending tricoln equal to climax and descending tricolon equal to anticlimax?
tricolon contains three units, and it seems that climax contains three units too
"I came, I saw, I conquered." is both tricolon and climax, is that so?

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@vickie007,

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a tricolon is a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.

http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/tricolon3.htm

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Climax: Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction (see auxesis), with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events or of an experience.

http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/climax.htm

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