epiphonema
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- a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said.“In Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale, the Reeve drives home his story of a cheating Miller by summarizing the tale that he has told in an epiphonema.”Type of rhetorical device
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ep′i·pho·ne′ma noun
Origin: L., fr. Gr. ἐπιφώνημα, fr. ἐπιφωνεῖν to mention; ἐπί + φωνεῖν to speak.
Rhetoric An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54