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• ecphrasis

語源

From Ancient Greek ἔκφρασις (ékphrasis, “description”), from ἐκφράζω (ekphrázō, “I describe”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, ex-”) + φράζω (phrázō, “I explain, point out”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛkfɹəsɪs/

名詞

ekphrasis (countable and uncountable, plural ekphrases)

1. (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or verbal description of an object, especially of an artwork.
   • 2004, Daniel Donoghue, Old English Literature, Blackwell, published 2004, page 75:

     One [trope] is ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of art, the most famous example of which may be the careful depiction of the shield of Achilles in book 18 of the Iliad.

   • 2026 June 3, Elisa Gabbert, “How Poets Went From Describing Art to Personally Admiring It”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a good contender, the classic example of ekphrasis.

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参考

• hypotyposis