EKPHRASIS-CHRONOGRAPHIA  

詳寫時期法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a time of day, or a time of the year.

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.
Miriam 129 "Chronographia is the description of times, as of dawn by Romeo.

Look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East.

Night's out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 3.5.7

REF: Not in Lausberg. Renaissance technical term.

Greek/Latin: Current.

Ancient Chinese: Rare.

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