Assertion: amplification | /r/HasProperty | auxesis
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text: Amplification ("auxesis" in Greek and "amplificatio" in Latin) is a central term in rhetoric, naming a variety of general strategies as well as some very specific procedures or figures of speech.
text: Amplification (auxesis) sometimes refers to arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force.
text: Amplification (auxesis) sometimes names the act of referring to something in terms disproportionately large (a kind of exaggeration or hyperbole).