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Auxesis (figure of speech)

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Auxesis ({{lang-grc-gre|αὔξησις}}, aúxēsis) is the Greek word for "growth" or "increase". In rhetoric, it refers to varying forms of increase:

hyperbole (overstatement): intentionally overstating a point, its importance, or its significance^[1]^[2]^[3]
climax (ascending series): a series of clauses of increasing force^[4]
amplificatio (rhetorical increase): extension or exaggerated, needless repetition of arguments to emphasize the point

In ancient Greece, it was also sometimes known as auxanein ("growing").{{fact|date=July 2015}}

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1. ^Encarta World English Dictionary (1999)
2. ^The Times English Dictionary (2000)
3. ^OED 1st edition
4. ^Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University Silva Rhetoricae {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122054739/http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/A/auxesis.htm |date=January 22, 2010 }}

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