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ECPHONESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exclamatory rhetorical device
Example:
O tempore! O mores
Synonyms:
ecphonesis; exclamation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ecphonesis" 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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