Epiphrase
Sign in to savethumb|"No, I swear, I'm not telling you this to flatter you, you have a true friend like no other. I will tell you that if you don't know it, you are the only one. Mme Verdurin was telling me this again on the last day ()", Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Identification
- Etymology
- Definition
- The difference with the epiphonema
- Hyperbaton and epiphrase
- Two purposes
- Adding words
- Author's comment
- Stylistic use
- Rhetorical use
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|"No, I swear, I'm not telling you this to flatter you, you have a true friend like no other. I will tell you that if you don't know it, you are the only one. Mme Verdurin was telling me this again on the last day ()", Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann.
An epiphrase (meaning "what it is said in addition", from ancient Greek ἐπί/epí "in addition" and φράσις/phrásis "phrase") is a figure of speech that consists of joining one or more sentence segments to the end of a syntactically completed sentence or group as a conclusion or to emphasize a fact.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Epiphrase” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.