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Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation

Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation

Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation

Parenthetic Addition by Way of Exclamation

Cat-a-plok-ee (), from (kata), down, and (plokee), a twining or plaiting. The figure is so called because the short sentence so interposed is intertwined with another. This name is given to a parenthesis when it takes the form of a sudden exclamation.

Eze 16:23-24.-And it came to pass after all thy wickedness

(woe, woe unto thee! saith Adonai-Jehovah)

That thou hast also built unto thee, etc.

Rom 9:2-3.-This is a kind of Cataploce as well as Epitrechon (see page 428), and Euche.

Fuente: Figures of Speech Used in the Bible