FORMULA  

Repeated REPETITIO of a conventional standard formulaic expression in a text.

定形句 Fixed recurring formula, as for example notoriously common in epic poetry and particularly in Homer.

Hypernym
  • 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
  • CLICHEOverused FORMULA which has lost the expressive force it pretends to have.
    Rhetorical device locations: 8
    • 百喻經 至於他家。

      昔有愚人

    • 百喻經 此亦復爾。

      此亦復爾 : this is the standard conclusion of the general discussion which follows each tale.

    • 百喻經 「我今若預於日日中𤚲取牛乳，

      而作是念 : very common formula

    • 百喻經 將會賓客；

      昔有愚人

    • 百喻經 作是念已，

      1484 times in Taisho Tripitaka.

    • 百喻經 彼亦如是。
    • 百喻經 愚人亦爾。

      愚人亦爾

    • 百喻經 頭上無毛。

      昔有愚人