Joannes Susenbrotus:
Epitome troporum ac schematum et Grammaticorum & Rhetorume arte rhetorica libri tres (Zurich, 1540[?])
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Compact Outline

  • 1.0 Tropos
    • 1.1 dictionum (tropes of words)
    • 1.2 orationum (tropes of speech)
  • 2.0 Schemata
    • 2.1 gramatica
      • 2.1.1 orthographica
      • 2.1.2 syntacta
    • 2.2 rhetorica
      • 2.2.1 dictionum (schemes of words)
      • 2.2.2 orationum (schemes of speech)
      • 2.2.3 amplificationis

Detailed Outline

1.0 Tropes

1.1 Tropes of words

  • Metaphor (translatio)
  • Synecdoche (intellectio)
  • Metonymia (transnominatio)
  • Antonomasia
  • Onomatopoeia ("nominis confictio")
  • Catachresis (abusio)
  • Metalepsis ("transumptio")
  • Acyrologia (or acyron)
  • Antiphrasis

1.2 Tropes of speech

  • Allegoria ("inversio," "permutatio")
    • Aenigma
    • Paroemia
    • Ironia ("illusio")
    • Sarcasmus
    • Asteismus ("astysmus" "astismus" "urbanitas")
    • Mycterismus
    • Diasyrmus
    • Antiphrasis
    • Charientismus
  • Hyperbole ("superlatio," "dementiens superiectio," "eminentia," "excessus")

2.0 Schemes

2.1 Grammatial schemes

2.1.1 Grammatical Schemes: Orthographical
  • Prothesis ("appositio")
  • Aphaeresis
  • Epenthesis ("interpositio")
  • Syncope
  • Paragoge ("diductio")
  • Apocope
  • Systole
  • Diastole ("ectasis")
  • Synaloepha
  • Synaeresis
  • Diaeresis
  • Antithesis (antistoechon)
  • Metathesis

2.1.2 Grammatical Schemes: Syntactical

Of defect:

  • eclipsis
  • posiopesis
  • zeugma
  • syllepsis
  • prolepsis
  • anapodoton

Of redundancy:

  • pleonasmus (including parelcon, perissologia, macrologia)
  • epanalepsis

Of interrupted order:

  • hyperbaton (including anastrophe, histerologia, tmesis, synchisis, parenthesis)

Of substitution or alteration:

  • enallage
    of case (antiptosis), or of gender, number, tense, etc.
  • eclipsis
  • aposiopesis ("reticentia" "praecisio" "obticentia" "interruptio")
  • zeugma (including prozeugma, mesozeugma, and hypozeugma)
  • syllepsis
  • prolepsis ("praesumptio")
  • anapodoton
  • pleonasmus
  • parelcon
  • perissologia
  • macrologia
  • epanalepsis ("resumptio")
  • hyperbaton ("transgressio" and anastrophe
  • hysterologia ("praeposteratio")
  • tmesis (including diacope, and "sectio" and "intercisio"
  • synchisis "Confusio"
  • parenthesis ("dialysis" [sic])
  • hyppallage [sic] ("submutatio" "subalternatio")
  • hendiadis
  • tapinosis
  • cacemphaton
  • cacosyntheton
  • asyndeton ("inconiunctum") or dialyton ("dissolutum")
  • schesis onomaton
  • hirmos
  • epitheton "appositum" "attributum"
  • periphrasis "loquendi circuitus" circuitio" "circumlocutio")
  • liptote
  • epimone
  • alleotheta or "alloeosis"
  • paradiastole

2.2 Rhetorical schemes

2.2.1 Rhetorical Schemes: of words

  • repetitio (anaphora)
  • "anaphora"= "relatio"
  • "epibole" = adiectio epanaphora = repetitio, relatio
  • epanalepsis
  • epizeuxis "subiunctio"
  • anadiplosis "reduplicatio" "palilogia"
  • conversio "antistrophe"
  • complexio "symploce" 50-51
  • copulatio or duplicatio
  • ploce
  • traductio
  • articulus "asyndeton" and "dissolutio"
  • membrum "isocolon" "compar"
  • similiter cadens, "homoioptoton"
  • similiter desinens, "homoioteleuton"
  • agnominatio "prosonomasia" "paresia " , "paronomasia"
  • antanaclasis
  • ellipsis
  • posiopesis
  • nomatopoeia
  • ntonomasia
  • metonymy
  • catachresis
  • allegoria

2.2.2 Rhetorical Schemes: of speech

  • interrogatio
  • subiectio [= anthypophora] (includes erotemate, dialogismo, occupatione, dubitatione; antisagoge)
  • exclamatio (including insultatio)
  • dubitatio "aporia" (including inopinatum, paradoxum)
  • communicatio "anakoenosis"
  • permissio
  • licentia "parresia"
  • aversio "apostrophe"
  • prosopopoeia "confirmatio" "personae fictio"

2.2.3 Rhetorical Schemes: of amplification

  • interpretatio "synonymia"
  • incrementum "auxesis"
  • congeries "synathroismos" "coacervatio"; "epitrochasmos"
  • contentio "contrarium" "antitheton" or "antithesis"
  • comparatio
  • hypothesin
  • correctio "epanorthosis"
  • ratiocinatio
  • diminutio "meiosis"
  • gradatio "climax"
  • commutatio "antimetabole"
  • synoeciosis
  • regressio "epanodos"
  • occupatio, praeteritio, paralepsis
  • praesumptio, praeoccupatio, prolepsis, procatalepsis
  • transitio "metastasis"
  • causa "aitiologia"
  • confessio "paromologia"
  • definitio horismus
  • hypotyposis "enargia, evidentia, illustratio, suffiguratio, demonstratio, descriptio, effictio, subiectio sub oculos" (includes: prosopographia, prosopopoeia, pragmatographia, topographia, topothesia, chronographia)
  • prosopographia, "effictio"
  • prosopopoeia,
  • pragmatographia "rei descriptio"
  • topographia
  • topothesia
  • chronographia
  • expolitio "exergasia" (including seven parts: propositione, ratione, duplici senttia: cui ratio item duplex subiici potest, contrario, simili, exemplo & conclusione)
  • distributio "merismus"
  • divisio "dialysis"
  • sermocinatio "dialogismus"
  • sententia "gnome" (also apophthegmata)
  • acclamatio "epiphonema"
  • noema
  • continuatio
  • expeditio "enumeratio"
  • frequentatio "synathroismus"
  • exuscitatio
  • commoratio "immoratio"
  • similitudo "homoeosis"
  • icon, imago "eikon"
  • parabola parabole "collatio"
  • paradigma "paradeigma" "exemplum"
  • digressio "parecbasis" (also excursus, egressio, expatiandi genus, egressus)
 



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