EKPHRASIS-CHOROGRAPHIA
詳寫風景人世法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a place and its inhabitants.
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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
- 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]
REF: Lanham, not in Miriam.
Greek/Latin: Common since Homer.
Ancient Chinese:Rare, even Sha1nha3iji1ng does not provide the kind of psychologizing description that is intended by the term cho1rographia. It would be nice to trace the history of "psychological geography" in China.
Greek/Latin: Common since Homer.
Ancient Chinese:Rare, even Sha1nha3iji1ng does not provide the kind of psychologizing description that is intended by the term cho1rographia. It would be nice to trace the history of "psychological geography" in China.