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Descriptio

de-scrip'-ti-o L. “diagram, description”

Although descriptio is synonymous with enargia, the Ad Herennium author further specifies that it contains an exposition of the consequences of an act.

Examples

Should you let the defendant go free, consider how he will prey upon other hapless victims, perhaps even hunting in your own neighborhood?

Acknowledgement

The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.