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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'ekphrasis' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions ekphrasis noun (ekphras, es) (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork. 2004: One trope is , the literary description of a work of art, the most famous example of which may be the careful depiction of the shield of Achilles in book 18 of the Iliad. " Daniel Donoghue, Old English Literature (Blackwell 2004, p. 75) Etymology: From Ancient Greek (polytonic, á), from (polytonic, á), from (polytonic, á-) "ex-" + (polytonic, ) "speak".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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