Ekphrasis

A ekphrasis (plural will ekphras E is) is a description of work of art, real or fictitious, enchased in an account. The traditional ekphrasis can correspond on the plan of the style to the hypotypose (animated description).

Example of ekphrasis in Leucippé and Clitophon, Romance Greek of Achilles Tatius, when the narrator describes a table which it has representing under the eyes the myth of the abduction of Philomèle and its rape by Térée. This description continues during several pages.

The EKPHRASIS in formation: The ekphrasis, stylistic device, consist of a description or representation of an object or a project, such as one believes food the situation presented. To practice the ekphrasis in formation, council or coaching, it is to lead the different one to concretize the representation which it has of a situation, to make it pass from virtual to concretized reality. The practice of the ekphrasis is very operational during presentations of project to a public, for example, or in professional writings, in reference to the teaching step of Isabelle de Montety.

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