epitasis  epitasis
 e-pit'-a-sis Gk. "a stretching"

  The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated. A kind of amplification.

Example

Clean your bedroom. All of it.

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


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