epiploce
Meanings
noun
- A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.
- Synonym of anaclasis.
Word forms
Etymology
From Latin epiplocē (“(rhetoric) connection”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιπλοκή (epiplokḗ, “plaiting together”), from ἐπιπλέκω (epiplékō, “to interweave”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) (see epi-) + πλέκω (plékō, “to plait”).
Synonyms
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