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Ekphrases vs Ekphrasis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ekphrases and ekphrasis

is that ekphrases is plural of lang=en while ekphrasis is a clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.

ekphrases

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Noun

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    • ekphrasis

    English

    (wikipedia ekphrasis)

    Alternative forms

    * ecphrasis

    Noun

    (ekphrases)
  • (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
  • :* 2004': One [trope] is '''''ekphrasis'' , 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)