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epiplexes

epiplexes is the plural of epiplexis.

Meaning of epiplexis

Noun

epiplexis (plural epiplexes)

  1. (rhetoric) A rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to criticise or blame, or more generally, to elicit an emotional response.
    • Afterwards, questioners employ the rhetorical figure called epiplexis. This interrogative figure is designed to blame the addressee, posing trick questions whose goal is to reveal whatever the speaker considers to be his or her faults. Epiplexis is backed up by cataplexis.2013, Jean Godefroy Bidima, “La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech”, in Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings, page 24

Questions about epiplexes

What is epiplexes the plural of?
Epiplexes is the plural of epiplexis.

Words near epiplexes in the dictionary

  1. epiplastrons
  2. epiplectic
  3. epipleural
  4. epipleurals
  5. epipleuron
  6. epiplexes
  7. epiplexis
  8. epiploa
  9. epiploce
  10. epiplocele
  11. epiploceles

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