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amplification
['æmplɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n]
n
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lit.
A rhetorical device where language is used to emphasise or extend. For example Charles Dickens used the technique in his opening passages to BLEAK HOUSE, creating an atmosphere of fog, literal and metaphorical.
see also
repetition
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