PROFECY  

LITERARY GENRE of a speech by a speaker who considers himself as a profet with supernatural knowledge about the future and direct access to deities.

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  • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
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