OSTENTATIO  

ORATIO designed as an elaborate public show of supreme rhetorical skill.

Hypernym
  • ORATIOLITERARY GENRE of a public speech.
    • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
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