Epiphrase
The epiphrase ( Greek ἐπιφράζω , “to note in addition”) is a rhetorical figure in which a syntactically already complete sentence is given an addendum in the form of a word or a group of words.
Examples
"You and my angel are my savior."
"I do not love you."
literature
- Heinrich Lausberg : Elements of literary rhetoric. An introduction for students of classical, Romance, English and German philology. 6th edition. Max Hueber, Ismaning 1979, ISBN 3-19-006508-X , p. 162.
- Anja Overbeck: Italian in the opera libretto. Quantitative and qualitative studies on lexicons, syntax and style (= supplements to the journal for Romance philology . 364). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025832-5 , pp. 262 f., 267-270, (also: Göttingen, Universität, habilitation paper, 2010).
