diaskeue  diaskeue
 di-as-keu'-ee from Gk. diaskeuazesthai, "to arm, equip, prepare"

Graphic peristasis (description of circumstances) intended to arouse the emotions.
 
Examples
  Look at my children, their malnourished cheeks, their bare feet, their hunger to know something more than hunger...
 
  Sources: Bullinger 456


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Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University
Please cite "Silva Rhetoricae" (rhetoric.byu.edu)


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