In other comparable definitions of figures dealing with the imitation of people, such as prosopopoeia, ethopoeia, or pathopoeia , the mimetic appeal of the figures had been underlined. By contrast, despite his interest in the way affections are expressed through ethopoeia and pathopoeia , in Sherry there is no allusion to the correspondence between outward signs and inwardness and to how the former work as indices to the latter.

This essay will first focus on their efforts to address this aporia, then analyze their use of several tropes to make atheist arguments more attractive: paralepsis; the sarcasm cluster (apodioxis, tapinosis, diasyrmus); pathopoeia ; and the linked tropes of catachresis and metalepsis. Pathopoeia adds a dimension to their rhetoric that is more serious, moving, and (usually) quite personal.

He writes of " Pathopoeia and the Protestant Form of Donne's Devotions" with the hope of accounting for "audience orientation" and "emotional appeal" (pathopoeic, or pathos).

"Passion is speaking," this prosopopeia lurks behind the criticism of the "new rhetoricians," making it (to use a term revived by recent criticism), a pathopoeia . (32) And the same figure becomes even more powerful in some of Coleridge's readings of Shakespeare when--as we shall see--he acknowledges the voice of passion even where earlier critics had considered it silent.

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(25) Witness Montaigne's pathopoeia in "De la phisionomie": "Monstrueuse guerre: les autres agissent au dehors; cette-cy encore contre soy se ronge et se desfaict par son propre venin" (1041b) ("Monstrous war!

The highly expressive nature of these two movements arises in part from a repetition of certain intervals "of the type sometimes found in discussion of [such] musico-rhetorical figures as pathopoeia (affective minor seconds) and saltus duriusculus (larger chromatic intervals)" (p.

Devices related to the appeal to emotions include cohortatio, commiseratio, indignatio, excuscitatio, pathopoeia .

Largely derived from rhetorical theory (probably from Melanchthon, via Lucas Lossius), terms such as hypallage, hypotyposis, parrhesia, pathopoeia , and syncope are used to describe musical procedures, not always in a way one would expect from the rhetorical analogue (indeed, in some cases Burmeister even changed his mind between treatises).