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Ekphrasis

Scope note

Description of a work of art, real or imaginary, undertaken as a rhetorical exercise. THDAT

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300055899

Broader Terms used

<artistic devices: literature>

Created

13yrs ago

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