EKPHRASIS-CHOROGRAPHIA  

詳寫風景人世法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a place and its inhabitants.

Hypernym
  • EKPHRASISDIGRESSIO in which one enters into a disproportionately detailed description of a subject matter. 詳細描寫法 Elaborate digressive description inserted into a passage.
    • DIGRESSIOSPEECH ACT of digressing from one's main topic or narrative line of discourse. 節外生枝法 Explicit or implicit digression.
      • 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: Lanham, not in Miriam.

Greek/Latin: Common since Homer.

Ancient Chinese:Rare, even Sha1nha3iji1ng does not provide the kind of psychologizing description that is intended by the term cho1rographia. It would be nice to trace the history of "psychological geography" in China.

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