Characterismus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Characterismus is a noun meaning The rhetorical enargia used to describe a person.
Meaning
The rhetorical enargia used to describe a person.
Example Sentences
In a considerable body of passages of characterismus, Spenser presents a detailed portrait of Britomart's heart and soul an anatomy of her passions.
Therefore, in respect to characterismus the majority of observations made by the television-evangelists describe the mental rather than physical state.
Such descriptive techniques as characterismus, prosopopoeia, ethopoeia, and topographia encouraged men to seek out the typical qualities in their experience and environment.
In Henry IV's concluding scene, Falstaff does nothing, but Richardson transforms the absence of action into evidence of thought; to fill the gap, he writes his own characterismus, or representation of Falstaff 's thought processes.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anemographia, ethopoeia, anthropopeia, hypotyposis, prosopopoeia, graecismus.
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