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.
REF: Miriam 155

EX: "To get back to the main point...".

Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous

Ancient Chinese: Rare.

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