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Ekphrasis vs Hypotyposis - What's the difference?

ekphrasis | hypotyposis |

In rhetoric terms the difference between ekphrasis and hypotyposis

is that ekphrasis is a clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork while hypotyposis is a vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

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)

    • hypotyposis

    English

    Noun

    (hypotyposes)
  • (rhetoric) A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.
    • (Webster 1913)