Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A description or interpretation; a plain declaration or utterance.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of ekphrasis.
Examples
“With ekphrasis (or ecphrasis), an essentially rhetorical device in which an object formed in one art becomes the matter for another, the theory only apparently changes or takes on another dimension.”
“And then we pay for our _ecphrasis_ by an immense _Histoire_ of the Tyrian”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
“There is much hard fighting with Thomyris, who on one occasion wishes to come to actual sword-play with Cyrus, and of whom we have the liveliest _ecphrasis_, or set description, in the whole romance.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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ecclesiarchy, ecclesiastry, ecdemomania, echinuliform, echoism, echolalia, echopraxia, eclaircise, ?claircissement, eclat, ?clat, eclegme and 616 more...
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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karnage's Words
furbelow, farinaceous, fendrake, rhizobium, imbricate, quaquaversal, exstasis, grapheme, scissiparity, apterous, obdurant, omphalos and 135 more...
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wolfson's Words
cicisbeo, animadversion, drupe, callipygian, rhadamanthine, poetaster, philosophaster, grammaticaster, lacuna, infralapsarian, incunabula, logorrhea and 142 more...
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Figures of Speech
allegory, alliteration, anaphora, aposiopesis, apostrophe, assonance, asyndeton, chiasmus, ecphrasis, ellipsis, enjambment, hendiadys and 18 more...
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Literary Endeavors
acephalous, aidos, allegory, alliosis, alliteration, allusion, amphibrach, amphimacer, anadiplosis, anagnorisis, anaphora, anapest and 58 more...
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karnage often spelled ekphrasis Dec 4, 2006