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/ɪˈpɪtəsɪs/ · noun
(ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins..
How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
Use epitasis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epitasis means (ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins..
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How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.
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