| She stages this well-made play with cinematic techniques like stills, a dense auxesis and a good sense of humour, which delights season ticket holders and a young audience alike. |
| Botanists do still distinguish between auxesis or growth by expansion, and merisis or growth by cell-multiplication. |
| Catacosmesis, like auxesis, expresses degree through word order, but whereas auxesis sets the weightiest word last, catacosmesis sets the word greatest in dignity first. |
| In addition, the major technique of ancient epideictic oratory, auxesis, is wonderfully compatible with Aristophanic comedy. |
| A somewhat lengthy disquisition on epideictic rhetoric is notably broken up by a discussion of the figural strategies of auxesis and epistrophe in the cartoon's obscene song. |
| Hyperbole and auxesis are two types of overstatement that have traditionally been regarded as figures of speech belonging to the realms of poetry and rhetoric. |
