Did you mayhaps mean one of these? Euphrasia, emphasis
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rhetoric A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἔκφρασις (ekphrasis, "description"), from ἐκφράζω (ekphrazō, "I describe"), from ἐκ (ek, "out, ex-") + φράζω (phrazō, "I explain, point out"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At work in this ekphrasis is a subconscious interest in decorum and restraint, and a corresponding leeriness about aesthetic identification.”
“While these examples suggest that in practice ekphrasis is not limited to one specific use, contemporary attitudes toward the term have grown out of a definition of it that emphasizes literary (poetic) representation — with all the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions the notion entails.”
Obama’s Inauguration Poem: Ekphrasis, Evoking pictures, swaying emotions, preparing expositions
“I want to suggest, however, that in a certain sense all ekphrasis is notional, and seeks to create a specific image that is to be found only in the text as its "resident alien," and is to be found nowhere else.”
“In an ekphrasis which itself describes a series of framed images, the author contrives no less than three levels of remove (actually, four, if we include the fact that the ekphrasis is used solely as a metaphor for De Quincey's own dream experiences); I quote only from the preface to his account: Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome,”
“It seems entirely fitting, then, that the canonical "origin" of classical ekphrasis is the description of Achilles 'shield in the 18th book of the Iliad.”
“The relation of epic to ekphrasis is thus turned inside out: the entire action of the”
“What is it in ekphrasis that makes it an object of utopian speculation, anxious aversion, and studied indifference?”
“The female image of ekphrasis is not an object to be caressed and fondled with contemplative ambivalence like Keats's Urn, Stevens's Jar, or”
“The first might be called "ekphrastic indifference," and it grows out of a commonsense perception that ekphrasis is impossible.”
“I don't think ekphrasis is the key to the difference between ordinary and literary language, but merely one of many figures for distinguishing the literary institution (in this case, by associating verbal with visual art).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ekphrasis’.
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from phrontistery.info
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Film
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 51 more...
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Reading Materials
Names of printed materials meant to be read - for worship, pleasure, information, recitation; out of curiosity, or, in the case of adverts, to get our attention and sway our spending choices.
lectionary, epistolary, reading-book, novel, Bildungsroman, short story, billboard, advertisement, Sunday comics, obituaries, book of hours, primer and 84 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
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colleen's words
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tree's Words
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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karnage's Words
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richardr's Words
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rememberers
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Specific
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women's experimental writing course
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applebone's Words
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Tweets
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fbharjo Is there no stock phrase? (or picture?) Sep 26, 2011
sionnach Then there is porkphyria pigmentosa, a porcine malady (involving severe sensitivity to sunlight, if you must know) that manifests in piggies who over-indulge in a certain variety of clover.
What's that you say? It doesn't fit the criterion? Picky, picky, picky. Sep 26, 2011
sionnach It was bondage and liberte in equal measure at this week's unveiling of jean-Paul Gaultier's spring lineup. Madonna-style bustiers vied with mockphrygian caps as the models sashayed down the catwalk. Sep 26, 2011
sionnach Quackphrenologist. (Is there any other kind?) Sep 26, 2011
bilby According to OneLook there are only variations of this root. Unless we go madeupicalise a bit :-) Sep 26, 2011
hernesheir Yes, well, I was thinking a little more other than ekphrastic. But thanks for responding, bilby, and thanks for the adjective. Sep 26, 2011
bilby ekphrastic Sep 26, 2011
hernesheir Which other words contain the string -kphr- ?
Sep 26, 2011
reesetee Heehee. Next time you go first! Jan 17, 2008
colleen that's the one! Jan 17, 2008
reesetee Poets.org, yes? :-) Jan 17, 2008
colleen reesetee, apparently we get the same newsletter. :) Jan 17, 2008
reesetee Interesting essays here and here about the relationship between verbal and visual art. Jan 17, 2008