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Climax

In climax, a series of ideas are arranged in the order of increasing importance.

• Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime
• What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a God!

Anticlimax

Anticlimax is the opposite of climax - a sudden descent from higher to lower. It is chiefly used for the purpose of satire or ridicule.

• Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey,
  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.