SERMOCINATIO  擬言法

FICTIO of speech or opinion in a real historical person.

Attribution of speech or opinion to a real historical person.

Hypernym
  • FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
    • NARRATIOSPEECH ACT which consists in the reporting of events.
      • 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.
    • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
REF: Lausberg 820-825

Greek/Latin: ad Herennium 4.52.65. Aquila 4: hjqopoiiva, moralis confictio ...hic certis quibusdam personis verba accommodate affingimus, vel ad improbitatem earum demonstrandam vel ad dignitatem.. Ubiquitous.

Ancient Chinese: Ubiquitous, whole books being written in this spirit.

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