epitasis
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Is epitasis a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.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."
2. (rhetoric) The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.
3. (obsolete) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Definition source: Wiktionary