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The works share a miniaturist's sense of rendering human and chimerical figures, and a taste for composition that leans toward the exemplification of a central theme--students of rhetoric might apply the terms exemplificatio and amplificatio.
Bruegel: The Complete Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Kavaler, Ethan Matt / Renaissance Quarterly
I might add that this amplificatio on the theme of the imagined meal, the meal not served, a description as preteritio, epitomizes the fantasy of this comedy and embodies the figure's joining of absence and presence (to paraphrase Pascal).
Textual harmonies in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Bold, Stephen / Romance Notes
Anderson [Leiden: Brill, 1998], 112-208), elaborates on four essential rhetorical moves: (a) exordium, (b) narratio, (c) argumentatio, and (d) peroratio, but he also discusses several optional or subordinate moves, including (e) proemium, (f) insinuatio, (g) initium, (h) digressio, (i) transitus, (j) amplificatio, (k) exempla, and (l) recapitulatio.
The rhetorical strategy of 1 Corinthians 15 by Wegener, Mark I. / Currents in Theology and Mission
 
 
 
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