ENCOMIUM

Encomium

Encomium is a Latin word deriving from the Classical Greek ἐγκώμιον meaning the praise of a person or thing. "Encomium" also refers to several distinct aspects of rhetoric:

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encomium

Noun

  1. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
  2. A general category of oratory.
  3. A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
  4. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
  5. A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.


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