epiphonema🔊

(rhetoric) An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.

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he would sometimes break off in a sudden and spirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis, raised a third, and sometimes a full fifth, above the key of the discourse, […]

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Epiphonema, for a final clause, / An inference strong by sudden impulse draws.

Larret Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric

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