Meaning of epitasis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
   countable, uncountable
2. The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
3. The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.”

“It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.”

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