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Ecphonesis

noun
1.
An exclamatory rhetorical device.  Synonym: exclamation.






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... FIGURE XI.—ECPHONESIS. "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



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