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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ec·pho·ne·sis n.  Rhet. An animated or passionate exclamation.
    The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various.   --Gibbs.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ecphonesis
      n : an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn:
           exclamation]