epitasis

e·pit·a·sis

noun

The definition of an epitasis is the middle of a classical drama, where action is created that leads to the problem.

An example of an epitasis is a battle scene in a drama.

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epitasis

that part of a play, esp. in classical drama, between the protasis, or exposition, and the catastrophe or denouement

Origin of epitasis

Modern Latin from Gr, a stretching, intensity from epiteinein, to stretch, intensify from epi-, epi- + teinein, to stretch: see thin

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epitasis

noun

pl. e·pit·a·ses,

The middle part of a play that develops the action leading to the catastrophe.

Origin of epitasis

Greek stretching, intensity from epiteinein epita- to stretch, intensify epi- epi- teinein to stretch ; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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Noun

(plural epitases)

(ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
(rhetoric) The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐπίτασις (epitasis, “stretching”), from ἐπιτείνω (epiteinō, “to stretch”), from ἐπί (epi) + τείνω (teinō, “stretch”).

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