rhetography

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noun

The evocation of imagery in a text narrative.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounrhetography (countable and uncountable, plural rhetographies)

plural rhetographies

  1. countableuncountableThe evocation of imagery in a text narrative.

    Table 1 summarizes the major theoretical influences on the idea of rhetography. A rhetographical analysis shows that online visual texts are rhetorical compositions whose messages are more complex than they appear.

    2016, Taiwo, Rotimi, Odebunmi, Akinola, Adetunji, & Akin, Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication, →ISBN, page 103
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    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 Levite.

    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

    As Christian discourse unfolds, it regularly blends "biblical" pictorial narration into its own ongoing pictorial narration. 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

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