PERCURSIO  略述法

BREVITAS in the form of a summarising quick and short ENUMERATIO.

Quick survey of what is not to be gone into in detail or listed for quick convenience.

Hypernym
  • ENUMERATIOPARALLELISM nominal expressions in the form of an enumerated list. 一一列舉法 Quantified enumeration of (usually brief) numbered points. For unquantified summary see PERCURSIO
    • PARALLELISMREPETITIO of the structural organisation of an expression.Structural parallelism, which is typically a complicate matter of degrees depending on how detailed the description is on which one's notion of parallelism is based.. Traditionally sometimes called PARISON.
      • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
        • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
  • BREVITASRHETORICAL STYLE which prefers economic use of language. 短言法 Deliberate pregnant brevity of diction. Ant: BREVITAS.Greek: brachulogia.
    • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
REF: Lausberg 299, 811

Greek/Latin: Cicero, de oratore 3.53.202

EX: Virgil, Aen. 1.340f: sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.

Ancient Chinese: One would look for it in XUN or SHIJI.

Rhetorical device locations: 0