Rhetography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rhetography is a noun meaning The evocation of imagery in a text narrative.
Meaning
The evocation of imagery in a text narrative.
Example Sentences
Table 1 summarizes the major theoretical influences on the idea of rhetography. A rhetographical analysis shows that online visual texts are rhetorical compositions whose messages are more complex than they appear.
The myth and philosophy from which Cicero and Virgil draw their images of the primordial realm make the rhetography of their precreation discourse much richer than that found in Jewish and Christian precreation discourse of the period.
As Christian discourse unfolds, it regularly blends "biblical" pictorial narration into its own ongoing pictorial narration. For example, rhetography from the story of Elijah and Elisha in the Bible at certain points blends into the rhetography in the story of Jesus.
The presence of the story about the Samaritan within the story about the lawyer establishes two interacting rhetographies in this portion of Luke. The picture of the lawyer's performance in relation to Jesus interacts with the picture of the Samaritan's performance in relation to the priest and Levite.
Word Forms
- rhetographies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include imagery, thoughtography, choragraphy, imagism, evocationism, narratage.
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