Hypernym

• RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• VALEDICTIOLITERARY GENRE consisting in a farewell speech.
• APOLOGIALITERARYGENRE consisting in the putting up a literary defence for something or for oneself.
• GENUS DELIBERATIVUMLITERARY GENRE which
• LETTERLITERARY GENRE which consists in a private message addressed to another person or to a group of persons.
• CONSOLATIOLITERARY GENRE in which one aims to provide philosophical or aesthetic consolation to someone who feels afflicted.
• DIATRIBELITERARY GENRE consisting of a popularising presentation of philosophy.
• ENCOMIUM
• DIARYLITERARY GENRE consisting of a more or less detailed description of a person's daily activities and daily informal observations.
• EPIGRAMLITERARY GENRE in the form of a brief, provocative, and witty poem.
• EPICLITERARY GENRE in the form of a very long, often popular, narrative piece of poetry.
• EPINIKIONLITERARY GENRE that consists in a poem celebrating a victory in sporting events like the Olympic Games.
• EPITAPHLITERARY GENRE in the form of an inscription on a tomb.
• EPITHALAMIUMLITERARY GENRE in the form of a poem celebrating a wedding.
• FABULALITERARY GENRE in the form of an invented NARRATIO with a philosophical significance.
  • EXEMPLUM　FABULA designed not only to entertain but to illustrate a typically religious message and to be used in the context EXHORTATIO. 舉例法 Factual or quasi-factual illustrative episode exemplifying a general point that is being made.
• ORATIO IUDICIALISLITERARY GENRE which consists in a public speech in the context of
• HISTORIOGRAPHYLITERARY GENRE which consists in describing events in the past.
• BIOGRAPHYLITERARY GENRE or EKPHRASIS describing the life of a person.
  • HAGIOGRAPHY　BIOGRAPHY of persons as holy or sacred personalities.
• SERMONLITERARY GENRE which consists in an ADDRESS of a congregation concerning matters of religion or the spiritual life.
  • HOMILIA　SERMON in the form of an interpretation of a text.
• LAUDATIOLITERARY GENRE which consists in saying something for the epress purpose of praising something or someone.
• DRAMALITERARY GENRE in the form of works written for performance on stage in a theatre.
  • COMEDY　DRAMA predominantly designed to make the audience laugh.
• SATIRELITERARY GENRE of exaggerated criticism of a person or of prevalent conditions in a society or group.
• JOKESLITERARY GENRE in the form of a short tale designed to make the audience laugh.
• PALINDROME-HUIWEN回文法　A piece of text that also makes sense when read in the reverse order from back to front.
• PROPAGANDALITERARY GENRE in the form of an ADHORTATIO that is publicly organised and systematically encourages the social public implementation of an ideology.
• PROFECYLITERARY GENRE of a speech by a speaker who considers himself as a profet with supernatural knowledge about the future and direct access to deities.
• ORATIOLITERARY GENRE of a public speech.
  • OSTENTATIO　ORATIO designed as an elaborate public show of supreme rhetorical skill.
• POETRYLITERARY GENRE of poetic texts typically with a regular metre and/or rhyme.
  • PSALM　POETRY directed at and addressing deities.
  • REFRAIN　POETRY in the form of verses repeated regularly at the end of stanzas throughout a poem.
• TRAVELOGUELITERARY GENRE in the form of a description of travel experience.
  • IMAGINARY TRAVELOGUE　TRAVELOGUE recounting an imaginary journey that did not really occur.
• PREFACELITERARY GENRE in the form of a short text serving as an introduction to a much longer book or written/spoken text by someone else.
  • ACCESSUS AD AUCTORES　Introductory remark in PREFACE This mode in which the author presents himself to his audience, typically in an introduction, is late to become common in China and very obviously needs careful study in connection with Chinese notions of authorship and the choreography of the "posing" in authorship, as manifested in traditional texts.
  • EXORDIUM　PREFACE typically at the beginning of speech, introducing a text or speech without immediately entering into the subject.
  • DEDICATIO　PREFACE in the form of a formal ADDRESS to a person who is hailed as the formal addressee of a book.
  • POSTFACE　PREFACE placed at the end of what it is the preface of.
• PROGYMNASMATALITERARY GENRE of preliminary exercises designed to enable one to go on to more important pursuits.
• ESSAYLITERARY GENRE consisting of a disquisition on a given topic.
• INTRODUCTIONLITERARY GENRE consisting in an opening statement introducing a larger work.
• NECROLOGUE
• MEMORIALLITERARY GENRE of a submission to a ruler.
• EDICT
• MILITARY ORDER