MIMESIS  

IMITATIO consisting of imitation of sound, action, or behaviour.

Hypernym
  • IMITATIOREPETITIO consisting in overt and deliberate repetition-by-way-of-imitation of a model assumed to be known to the readership/audience.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Hyponym
  • ONOMATOPOEIAMIMESIS which consists in expressing one's meaning by imitating the sound of what one describes. Imitation of sounds through made-up words.
    • Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 5.1232-1327
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