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ekphrases

ekphrases is the plural of ekphrasis.

Meaning of ekphrasis

Noun

ekphrasis (countable and uncountable, plural ekphrases)

  1. (rhetoric) 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.2004, Daniel Donoghue, Old English Literature, Blackwell, published 2004, page 75

Questions about ekphrases

What is ekphrases the plural of?
Ekphrases is the plural of ekphrasis.

Words near ekphrases in the dictionary

  1. ekphoria
  2. ekphorias
  3. ekphoring
  4. ekphorization
  5. ekphory
  6. ekphrases
  7. ekphrasic
  8. ekphrasis
  9. ekphrastic
  10. ekphratic
  11. ekpwele

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