epiploce noun2 •(rhetoric) A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.It is supposed that they acquire this name in consequence of the frequent occurrence of the epiploce; the subject of each psalm thus going on constantly from the beginning to the end. — 1875 •Synonym of anaclasis.All the feet might be treated by Epiploce. — 1886
