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rhetography

rhetography noun: the evocation of imagery in a text narrative.

Noun

rhetography (countable and uncountable, plural rhetographies)

  1. The evocation of imagery in a text narrative.
    • 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...2004, Sharon H. Ringe, H.C. Paul Kim, Literary Encounters with the Reign of God, →ISBN, page 258
    • 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.2011, Russell B Sisson, “Roman Stoic Precreation Discourse”, in Religion and Theology, volume 18, numbers 3-4

Examples of rhetography in a sentence

  • 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.2015, Vernon K. Robbins, Jonathan M. Potter, Jesus and Mary Reimagined in Early Christian Literature, →ISBN, page 17:
  • Table 1 summarizes the major theoretical influences on the idea of rhetography.2016, Taiwo, Rotimi, Odebunmi, Akinola, Adetunji, & Akin, Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication, →ISBN, page 103:

Forms of rhetography

pluralrhetographies

Origin of rhetography

From rheto(ric) + -graphy.

Words formed from rhetography

Questions about rhetography

What does rhetography mean?
Rhetography means the evocation of imagery in a text narrative.
How do you use rhetography in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is rhetography?
Rhetography is a noun.
What is the plural of rhetography?
The plural of rhetography is rhetographies.

Words near rhetography in the dictionary

  1. rhetizite
  2. Rheto-Romance
  3. Rheto-Romanic
  4. rhetographical
  5. rhetographies
  6. rhetography
  7. rhetological
  8. rhetology
  9. rhetor
  10. rhetoric
  11. rhetorical

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