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hypotyposis

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Hy`po`ty`po´sis
n.1.(Rhet.) A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.
hypotyposis
the use of colorful description or word-picturing.
See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
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The book follows various uses of hypotyposis ("vividness," "directness") through characterization of persons, times, and places to suggest the effect such historical writings might have had in their own time.
Text/Events in Early Modern England: Poetics of History by Kinney, Arthur F. / Renaissance Quarterly
Historians of science, for instance, would benefit from a closer consideration of Peletier's interpretation of mathematical models from the standpoint of rhetorical hypotyposis, from his approach to the relation between natural and preternatural orders, or from a closer consideration of his ideas concerning craft knowledge.
La voix de la nature dans l'oeuvre de Jacques Peletier du Mans ... by Vanden Broecke, Steven / Renaissance Quarterly
[85] Twenty five lines later, in an apparent digression, Ronsard elaborately depicts Automne's "nourrice" (nurse) spinning, and the eight verses of this hypotyposis offer a skilled imitation of Catullus's description of the Parcae at their work.
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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