Definitions
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- noun rhetoric A
forceful summarisation of previously made points
Etymologies
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From Latin accumulātiō ("the act of heaping up").
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Examples
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There are the hallmarks of tub-thumping oratory, such as repetition, accumulatio, and thundering parallel clauses.
The Biblicals 2007
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