epiploce

/EH0 P AH0 P L OW1 CH IY0/
noun
  1. 1

    (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.

  2. 2

    Synonym of anaclasis.

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