EPIPLEXIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epiplexis mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIPLEXIS (noun)

Sense 1

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))