What Does Ekphrasis Mean?

The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.

What is an example of ekphrasis?

"Ekphrasis" is a rhetorical and poetic figure of speech in which a visual object (often a work of art) is vividly described in words. ... One well-known example of ekphrasis in literature is John Keats's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

What does ekphrasis mean in poetry?

Ekphrastic poetry has come to be defined as poems written about works of art; however, in ancient. Greece, the term ekphrasis was applied to the skill of describing a thing with vivid detail. One of the. earliest examples of ekphrasis can be found in Homer's epic poem The Iliad, in which the speaker.

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