Abstract
We seek to understand the different meanings attributed to ekphrasis in order to analyze its use, as a linguistic resource, in the epic poem Prosopopeia (1601), by Bento Teixeira, whose discourse, outlined by Rhetoric, uses the ekphrasis to legitimize or build an argumentation. In order to do so, particularities about the literate production of Portuguese America are presented, and issues concerning Ancient Rhetoric and, more precisely, the ekphrasis are discussed. The analysis consists of delimitation and discussion of ecfrastic passages present in the poem, so that the ekphrasis is associated with the affiliation to the epic genre and the rhetorical character of Bento Teixeira's verses.
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