ekphrasis

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Scrabble points: 18
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 9

Pronunciation

/ˈɛkfɹəsɪs/

Definition of ekphrasis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A clear, intense, self-contained argument or verbal description of an object, especially of an artwork.

“One [trope] is ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of art, the most famous example of which may be the careful depiction of the shield of Achilles in book 18 of the Iliad.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκφρασις (ékphrasis, “description”), from ἐκφράζω (ekphrázō, “I describe”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, ex-”) + φράζω (phrázō, “I explain, point out”).

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