INSINUATIO
METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in the form of a in introduction to one's theme which takes as a point of departure what the speaker presumes preoccupies his intended audience.
順耳間接介紹法 Subtle approach to the opening of a speech which only indirectly leads to the subject.
Hypernym
- METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
- 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.
Greek/Latin: Extremely common in rhetorical practice, and currently discussed among theoretitians.
Ancient Chinese: Fine examples in Zha4nguo2ce4.