EKPHRASIS-PERSON  

詳寫身性法 The detailed and elaborated description of a person.

Traditionally known as CHARACTERISMUS.

Hypernym
  • EKPHRASISDIGRESSIO in which one enters into a disproportionately detailed description of a subject matter. 詳細描寫法 Elaborate digressive description inserted into a passage.
    • DIGRESSIOSPEECH ACT of digressing from one's main topic or narrative line of discourse. 節外生枝法 Explicit or implicit digression.
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Miriam 127 "Characterismus is the description of the body or mind."

REF: Renaissance technical term.

Greek/Latin: Common.

Ancient Chinese: Common, but less complex. The history of this form urgently needs careful study.

A commoratio that dwells with the features of an individual beyond the needs of the narrative. Miriam 127 "Ethopoeia is the description of natural propensities, manners and affections, such as seeking to win favour by flattery."

REF: Lausberg 820f

Greek/Latin: Currently discussed by rhetoricians. Isid. 2.14.1-2 ethopoeiam vero illam vocamus, in qua hominis personam fingimus pro exprimendis affectibus aetatis, studii, fortunae, laetitiae, sexus, maeroris, audaciae/

Ancient Chinese: relatively undeveloped

    Rhetorical device locations: 2
    • 牟子：理惑論 太子有三十二相，
    • 史記 「秦王為人， 蜂準 長目 摯鳥膺 豺聲 少恩而虎狼心 居約易出人下 得志亦輕食人 我布衣