characterismus

Therefore, in respect to characterismus the majority of observations made by the television-evangelists describe the mental rather than physical state.

1983, Danny Lee Alexander, A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Television Sermons, page 68

Such descriptive techniques as characterismus, prosopopoeia, ethopoeia, and topographia encouraged men to seek out the typical qualities in their experience and environment.

1991, Richard Brathwaite, Allen H. Lanner, A Critical Edition of Richard Brathwait's Whimzies, page 9

In Henry IV's concluding scene, Falstaff does nothing, but Richardson transforms the absence of action into evidence of thought; to fill the gap, he writes his own characterismus, or representation of Falstaff 's thought processes.

1992, Christy Desmet, Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity, page 46

An analogous focus upon good continuation is to be found in the many forms of enargia or figures of description recorded by rhetoricians, such as anemographia (of wind), astrotesia (of stars), characterismus (of personality), chorographia (of nations), chronographia (of time), dendrographia (of trees), etc.

2015 January, Giorgio Baruchello, “A classification of classics. Gestalt psychology and the tropes of rhetoric”, in New Ideas in Psychology, volume 36