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Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms - Abbreviation to Blend
Asiatic A prolix or highly ornamented style. Contrast with Attic. ... Brief, witty, sometimes epigrammatic style--opposite of the ornate Asiatic style. ...
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Attic--definition and examples of Attic
Brief, witty, sometimes epigrammatic style--opposite of the ornate Asiatic style. ... From the Greek, "the style of Attica". Examples: ...
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Asiatic--definition and examples of Asiatic
"Asiatic". From Richard Nordquist, Your Guide to Grammar & Composition. FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Definition:. A prolix or highly ornamented style. ...
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Rhetorical Terms by Type - Glossary of Rhetorical Terms - Figures ...
Asiatic A prolix or highly ornamented style. auxesis A gradual increase in intensity of meaning with words arranged in ascending order of force or ...
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History of Roman Literature (1877)
The "Asiatic" style to which Cicero here alludes, was affected, as its name implies, by the rhetoricians of Asia Minor, and is generally distinguished from ...
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History of Roman Literature (1877)
[4] Fuscus was an Asiatic, and seems to have been one of the first who ... but now the bombast and glitter of the Asiatic style flaunted itself in the Latin ...
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Herman Melville Quotes
"The traveler who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; ...
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History of Roman Literature (1877)
... to inspire her orators, they naturally sought in the splendour of the Asiatic style an equivalent for the chaste beauties of ancient national eloquence. ...
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The History of the Knights Templar
They were lightly armed, were clothed in the Asiatic style, and being inured to the climate, and well acquainted with the country, and with the Mussulman ...
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Latin Literature - Lucretius - J.W. Mackail Latin Literature - Cicero
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, the foremost representative of the Asiatic school, ... the hard legal style of the older courts alternating with passages of ...
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