Angel Day
The English Secretary (1599)
Rhetoric Timeline
Primary Source Synopses

Condensed Outline
  1. Tropes
    1. Tropes of words
    2. Tropes of sentences
  2. Schemes
    1. Schemes grammatical
    2. Schemes rhetorical
Detailed Outline

Tropes

  1. Tropes of words
    1. metaphora
    2. synecdoche
    3. metonymia (transnominatio)
    4. antonomasia
    5. onomatopoeia
    6. catachresis
    7. metalepsis
  2. Tropes of sentences
    1. allegoria
    2. aenigma
    3. paroemia (or adage)
    4. ironia
    5. sarcasmus
    6. asteisimus
    7. antiphrasis
    8. charientismus
    9. hyperbole

Schemes

  1. Schemes grammatical
    1. schemes orthographical
    2. schemes syntaxicall
      1. eclipsis
      2. aposiopesis
      3. zeugma
      4. syllepsis
      5. prolepsis
      6. pleonasmus
      7. macrologia
      8. anastrophe
      9. hysteron proteron
      10. tmesis (diacope)
      11. parenthesis
      12. hypallage
      13. hendiadis
      14. asyndeton
      15. polysyndeton
      16. hirmos
      17. epitheton
      18. periphrasis
      19. liptote
      20. paradiastole
      21. meosis
  2. Schemes rhetorical
    1. anaphora
    2. epanalepsis
    3. epizeuxis
    4. anadiplosis
    5. antistrophe
    6. symploche
    7. ploche
    8. polyptoton (traductio)
    9. membrum (parison)
    10. omoioteliton (simiter cadens)
    11. prosonomasia
    12. antanaclasis
    13. erotema (interrogatio)
    14. anthypophora (subjectio)
    15. antenagoge
    16. ecphonesis (exclamatio)
    17. insultatio
    18. aporia (dubitatio)
    19. paradoxon
    20. epitropis
    21. parresia
    22. apostrophe (aversio)
    23. prosopopoeia
    24. Synonymia
    25. auxesis (incrementum)
    26. sinathrismus
    27. brachiologia
    28. antithesis (contentio)
    29. epanodis
    30. comparatio
    31. metonoia
    32. aphorismus
    33. diminutio
    34. climax (gradatio)
    35. antimetano (antimetabole) (commutatio)
    36. sinaeciosis
    37. etiologia
    38. paralepsis (occupatio)
    39. procatalepsis (praeoccupatio)
    40. metastasis (transitio)
    41. paramologia
    42. dichologia
    43. orismus (definito, finitio)
    44. hypotyposis
    45. merismus (distributio)
    46. dialisis
    47. dialogismus (sermocinatio)
    48. epiphonema (conclusion)
    49. expeditio (enumeratio)
    50. commoratio
    51. sententia
    52. exuscitatio
    53. omiosis
    54. icon
    55. paradigma
    56. pareonasis (digressio)



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Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University
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