Epiploce

Quick meaning: Epiploce is a noun meaning (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.

Meaning

(rhetoric) A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of anaclasis.

Example Sentences

All the feet might be treated by Epiploce.

It is supposed that they acquire this name in consequence of the frequent occurrence of the epiploce; the subject of each psalm thus going on constantly from the beginning to the end.

In the twelve lines of 9.97 there are anaphora, epanasstrophe or anadiplosis ( in the form of epiploce), antistrophe, epanalepsis, and a fine epanadiplosis in the first and last lines )

In dress making Ram Rutton certainly excelled; but, from a curious idiosyncracy or obtuseness of intellect, he could not be made to comprehend "the unities," nor how an epiploce could be so graduated as to superinduce tears artificial; yet would he weep like an infant when mulcted for unauthorised absence from his professional labours.

Synonyms for epiploce

Depending on context, synonyms include anaclasis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include symploce, epizeuxis, epanadiplosis, anadiplosis, epicrisis, ampliatio.

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