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epiploce.

A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.

    rhetoric · uncountable
  2. Synonym of anaclasis.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

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”).

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