Ecphonesis (ec-pho-nee’-sis): An emotional exclamation.
Pat: “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
Terry: “You’re exactly where you belong! You’re lucky your cheap vodka comes in plastic bottles or you’d probably be cut on broken glass and bleeding all over the kitchen floor!”
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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