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Noun: epiphonema
  1. A sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.
    "In Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale, the Reeve drives home his story of a cheating Miller by summarizing the tale that he has told in an epiphonema."

Derived forms: epiphonemas

Type of: rhetorical device

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