epanorthosis

(ɪˌpænɔːˈθəʊsɪs)

(Rhetoric) rhetoric the almost immediate replacement of a preceding word or phrase by a more correct or more emphatic one, as for example in thousands, nay, millions

[C16: from Greek: correction, from epi- + ana- + orthos straight]

ˌepanorˈthotic adj

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epanorthosis

a rhetorical device in which something just said is repeated and stronger or more apt words are substituted.

epanorthosis

The immediate replacement, in order to achieve an effect of stress, of one word or phrase by another that is considered more correct.

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epanorthosis - immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification; "Seems, madam! Nay, it is"

rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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The latter three chapters identify rhetorical figures operating in select works: "epanorthosis" in Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable; "hyperbole" in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu; and "tautology" in Stein's The Making of Americans.

The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

Wasser rejects allegorical interpretations of the works and presents epanorthosis, a figure associated with a going-back and undoing, in their stead.

The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form

are followed by remarkable uses of rhetorical epanorthosis or metanoia;

Poetry, the Arts of Discourse, and the Discourse of the Arts

Here, however, through an epanorthosis, the narrative movement from es to puede ser signals two juxtaposed but linked concepts separated only by the temporal process of reading that moves from one to the other.