ADULATIO+SELF-DEPRECATION  自卑諂媚法

ADULATIO with a strong element of self-deprecation.

典型諂媚﹣自謙法 Self-deprecatory flattery.

Hypernym
  • ADULATIO諂媚對話法 ADDRESS designed to function as flattery.
    • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
      • 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.
Ancient Chinese: Ubiquitous and often obligatory.

    Rhetorical device locations: 18