Pronunciation: e-pi-pho-ne'-ma
Alternate Spelling: acclamatio
An epigrammatic summary which gathers into a pithy sentence what has preceeded. A striking, summarizing reflection.
"Thus is the haughty miller soundly beat, And thus he's lost his pay for grinding wheat, And paid for the two suppers, let me tell, of Alain and of John, who've tricked him well, His wife is taken, also his daughter sweet; Thus it befalls a miller who's a cheat."