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See: digression, indirection PERIPHRASIS. Circumlocution; the use of other words to express the sense of
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The Shepheardes Calender, Dialogue, and Periphrasis. Examiners will have to pay attention to the characteristics of speech delivery that in classical Rhetoric were dealt with in the "action" stage of constructing speech (Spang: 1979): speech tempo, hesitation, false starts, "cul-de sacs", repetition, periphrasis, silence . Beyond the explicit use of the adjectives "hidden" and "concealed," Colonna's writing similarly initially conceals meaning within rhetorical ornament, specifically metaphor, simile (imago), comparison (similitudo), and periphrasis (circumitio). |
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