OPTATIO  稱歎情願法

EXCLAMATIO expressing an intense typically unfulfillable or even contrafactual desire.

Invocation of what one is hoping for or wishing for.

Hypernym
  • EXCLAMATIOSPEECH ACT of exclaiming and thus venting an emotion or expressing a reaction vividly. 感嘆法 Exclamatory expression of emotion. Often difficult to distinguish from ADMIRATIO, which involves an attendant expectation that a matter referred to is astonishing. Also to be distinguished from EXCLAMATIO POETICA which is less assertively exclamatory and more appreciative.
    • 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.
Miriam 249 "Optatio is an ardent wish or prayer."

REF: Lanham, not in Lausberg.

EX: "A horse, a kingdom for a horse!"

Greek/Latin: Current.

Ancient Chinese: Unlikely in ancient Chinese.

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