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Ecphonesis

An animated or passionate exclamation.

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Exclamation 92% connected

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Motion noun · 86% connection

a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for t…

Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Punctuation.

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Question noun · 86% connection

a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for t…

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Conversion noun · 85% connection

interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

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Narration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

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Tapinosis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

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Counterargument noun · 78% connection

an argument offered in opposition to another argument

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Rhetorical device noun · 78% connection

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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Rhetorical question noun · 78% connection

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…

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Doctrine of analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Eclipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Em noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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Em quad noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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En dash noun · 78% connection

a dash that is one-half the length of an em dash.; "The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values — a range with c…

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-ate unknown · 78% connection

As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.