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EPIPLEXIS
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I. (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))