| Figure Name | epitasis |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("epitasis; or, amplification") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | amplification, intentio |
| Etymology | None |
| Type | Chroma |
| Linguistic Domain | |
| Definition |
1. The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated. A kind of amplification. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Addition of Conclusion by way of Emphasis... The Figure is used when a concluding sentence is added by way of increasing the emphasis. It is not independent of what has gone before, but it is some emphatic increase added to it by way of conclusion. (Bullinger, 478) |
| Example |
1. Clean your bedroom. All of it. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Ex. 3:19. -"And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand." (Bullinger, 479) |
| Kind Of | Repetition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | correctio, anesis, Figures of Amplification |
| Notes | I chose Repetition because this figure uses repetition of semantics/concepts. |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |