Epiphonema

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1. Noun

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

2. Noun

a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.; "In Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale, the Reeve drives home his story of a cheating Miller by summarizing the tale that he has told in an epiphonema."
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