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exclamation
has definitions from the field of rhetoric
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[ noun ] an abrupt excited utterance
Synonyms Examples "she gave an exclamation of delight" "there was much exclaiming over it" Used in print (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)As a word of caution , we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types , question , command , statement , or exclamation . If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question , it has served as an exclamation . All four types of message listed in Table 1 are permitted , although decorum and cocktail tradition require holding the commands to a minimum , while exclamations having complimentary intonations are more_than customarily encouraged . Questions and , particularly , exclamations are usually channeled along informal , horizontal lines not indicated in Figure 3 and seldom are carried beyond the nearest neighbor . (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Muffling an exclamation , Russ sprang to the nearest steps and ran_down . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a loud complaint or protest or reproach
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) an exclamatory rhetorical device
Synonyms Examples "O tempore! O mores" Related terms |
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