• Ethopoeia (ee-tho-po-EE-ya) is the ancient Greek term for the creation of a character. Ethopoeia was a technique used by early students of rhetoric in...
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    character (such as Death, for example), prosopography, unlike portrait and ethopoeia (see below), vividly describes the subject in his or her environment and...
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    thing and the invective against another. Students used personification or ethopoeia by forming a speech ascribed to the ghost of a known person or of an imaginary...
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    from Ovid's interest in rhetorical suasoriae, persuasive speeches, and ethopoeia, the practice of speaking in another character. They also play with generic...
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    rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility. Ethopoeia – the act of putting oneself into the character of another to convey that...
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  • -Rufinianus, De schematis dianoeas and De schematis lexeos Emporius Rhetor, De ethopoeia, Praeceptum de loco communi, Praeceptum deliberativae and Praeceptum demonstrativae...
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  • Roman Latin rhetorician and the author of three short tracts titled De Ethopoeia ac Loco Communi Liber, Demonstrativae Maleteriae praeceptum and De Deliberatia...
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    to the late Latin genre of poetical exercises in verified mythological ethopoeia. A parallel is to be found in the poem Alcesta of the Anthologia Latina...
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