REDITUS-AD-PROPOSITUM
反本題目法 La retour aux moutons. Declaring that one is getting back to the main line of thought after a digression.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
EX: "To get back to the main point...".
Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous
Ancient Chinese: Rare.