Philip Melanchthon Elementorum Rhetorices libri duo (Wittenberg, 1531) |
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See also Melanchthon's earlier rhetorical treatise, Institutiones Rhetorices (1519 or 1521). Book One |
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Third Order of Figures: Amplification Melanchthon innovates an arrangement of figures here by grouping them beneath topics of invention, showing a strong relationship between the topics and the figures. |
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Topic of Invention |
Associated Figures of Amplification |
Ex definitione (D4r) |
auxesis tapinosis/meiosis interpretatio (synonymia) expolicio |
Ex divisione (E3v) |
distributio (merismus) |
Ex causis (E4v) |
aitiologia dicaeologia anangeon translatio (metastasis) color gradatio (climax) |
Ex contrariis |
contentio (antithesis) commutatio (antimetabole) inversio communicatio (synoeciosis) correctio (epanorthosis) reiectio (apodioxis) occupatio (procatalepsis) concessio (paromologia) paradiastole Forma respondendi anthypophora antisagoge |
Ex similibus |
comparatio prosopopoeia sermocinatio (dialogismus) |
A genere |
sententia (gnome, chreia) epiphonema noema |
Ex circunstantiis & signis | hypotyposis |
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