DIAERESIS  

=DIHAIRESIS. SPEECH ACT consisting in the logical division of a genus into its species, of a general category into its subcategories.

分類討論法 Logical division of a genus into its species, known to the rhetoricians as the figure daeresis, is closely related to definition.

Currently referred to also by its properly Greek spelling: dihairesis.

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.
Miriam 111

REF: Lausberg 139

Greek/Latin: Current.

Ancient Chinese: Marginal.

    Rhetorical device locations: 0