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EPIPLEXIS

• 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 them

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

• EPIPLEXIS (noun)

Sense 1

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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))

"Don't burn your bridges before they're crossed."
(English proverb)
"You cannot hunt with a tied dog."
(Albanian proverb)
"Get together like brothers, and work together like strangers."
(Arabic proverb)
"Away from the eye, out of the heart."
(Dutch proverb)

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