ecphrasis
Meaning of ecphrasis
- the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.
it's not surprising that Hecht, a master of ekphrasis, would include descriptions of visual art
Virgil's ekphrases tend to highlight suffering or mourning figures
mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek ekphrasis ‘description’, from ekphrazein ‘recount’, from ek- ‘out’ + phrazein ‘tell’.
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Hyphenation of ecphrasis
ecphra-sis
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
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