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EPIPLEXIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epiplexis mean? 

EPIPLEXIS (noun)
  The noun EPIPLEXIS has 1 sense:

1. a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince themplay

  Familiarity information: EPIPLEXIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EPIPLEXIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epiplexis" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))


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