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Auxesis (, ''aúxēsis'') is the Greek word for "growth" or "increase". In rhetoric, it refers to two unrelated forms of increase: * hyperbole: intentionally overstating a point, its importance, or its significance〔Encarta World English Dictionary (1999)〕〔The Times English Dictionary (2000)〕〔OED 1st edition〕 * climax: a series of clauses of increasing force〔(Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University ''Silva Rhetoricae'' )〕 In Ancient Greece, it was also sometimes known as auxanein ("growing"). ==See also== * figure of speech * meiosis and litotes, the opposite of auxesis in its hyperbolic sense * anticlimax, the opposite of auxesis in its climactic sense 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auxesis (figure of speech)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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