Ecphonesis
ec-pho-nee'-sis from Gk. ek, "out" and phonein, "to speak"
Also known as ecphonisis, epiphonesis,exclamatio
the outcry
An emotional exclamation.
Examples
O tempora! O mores!
—Cicero
An emotional exclamation.
Acknowledgement
The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.
