A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
Urbanitas (ur BA ni tas; L. "refinement, elegance")
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991 Tautologia (tau to LO gi a; G. "saying the same things")
Repetition of the same idea in different words: Lepidus. What manner o'thing is your crocodile? Antony. It is shap'd, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it has breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. Lepidus. What colour is it of? Antony. Of its own colour too. Lepidus. 'Tis a strange serpent. Antony. 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet. (Antony and Cleopatra, II, vii) A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991 Photo taken in TF Green Airport, Warwick RI Synchoresis (syn cho RE sis; G. "consent, agreement").
The speaker gives his questioner leave to judge him. So Falstaff, in the play-within-a-play in 1 Henry IV, says to his tavern audience, "And here I stand: judge, my masters" (II, iv). A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991 Ratiocinatio (ra ti o ci NA ti o; L. "calm reasoning; reasoning by asking questions").
Asking ourselves the reasons for our own statements. What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine? The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? (Measure for Measure, II, ii) A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991 Querimonia (que ri MO ni a; L. "complaint")
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