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The description and portrayal of a character (natural propensities, manners
and affections, etc.). A kind of enargia. See
the progymnasmata exercise impersonation.
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- Subject
and Adjuncts
Since description typically takes the form of delineating the attributes
of something, it is therefore the use of this topic of invention,
by which one identifies the characteristics (or adjuncts) of a given
subject.
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Primary sources
Aquil. 4 ("ethopoeia,"
"moralis confictio"); Isidore 2.14.1-2; Sherry (1550) 67 ("aetopeia")
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