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anemographia

anemographia noun: the rhetorical enargia used to describe the wind.

Noun

anemographia (uncountable)

  1. The rhetorical enargia used to describe the wind.
    • The first three sections of the poem are an exercise in the classical mode of anemographia (description of the wind).1991, Essays on Canadian Writing - Issues 43-46, page 24
    • I think it safe to conclude that Poe's prose suggests a fondness for parallel structure, sometimes antithetical. I have also catalogued nearly two dozen devices of description, from anemographia to triplets adjectival and adverbial, and conclude that Poe is a highly descriptive writer.1999 Winter, Brett Zimmerman, “A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, in Style, volume 33, number 4

Questions about anemographia

What does anemographia mean?
Anemographia means the rhetorical enargia used to describe the wind.
What part of speech is anemographia?
Anemographia is a noun.

Words near anemographia in the dictionary

  1. anemogamy
  2. anemogenic
  3. anemogram
  4. anemograms
  5. anemograph
  6. anemographia
  7. anemographic
  8. anemographically
  9. anemographs
  10. anemography
  11. Anemoi

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