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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a threat of retribution (especially of divine punishment) is made in response to wrongdoing..
In III.v's [sc. Ben Jonson's Epicoene] final sixty lines, Morose and Truewit wish calamity on Cutbeard: 'May he get the itch, and his shop so lousy as no man dare come at him' (III.v.70-71). They focus half of their cataplexis on Cutbeard's body, which they hope will develop blotches and gout, and the other half on the objects of his trade.
Use cataplexis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cataplexis means (rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a threat of retribution (especially of divine punishment) is made in response to wrongdoing..
Common synonyms include commination.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In III.v's [sc. Ben Jonson's Epicoene] final sixty lines, Morose and Truewit wish calamity on Cutbeard: 'May he get the itch, and his shop so lousy as no man dare come at him' (III.v.70-71). They focus half of their cataplexis on Cutbeard's body, which they hope will develop blotches and gout, and the other half on the objects of his trade.
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