How to pronounce “analepsis”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated
• (medicine, archaic) Recovery of strength after sickness.
• (obsolete, medicine) A kind of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

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