epiphonema
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
Examples
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An epiphonema reminds at last every one that the good and the wicked shall receive the retribution each has merited.
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This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending, -- Dieu de Dieu!
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He would break off in the midst of one of his frequent disputes on the subject of names, and “in a spirited epiphonema, or rather erotesis,” demand of his antagonist “whether he would take upon him to say he had ever remembered, whether he had ever read, or whether he had ever heard tell of a man called Tristram performing anything great or worth recording.
Note
The word 'epiphonema' comes from Latin 'epiphonema', from Ancient Greek ἐπιφώνημα (epiphōnēma), from ἐπιφωνείν (epiphōnein, call to).
