chreia

Figure Name chreia
Source Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm)
Earliest Source None
Synonyms chria
Etymology None
Type Trope
Linguistic Domain Semantic
Definition

1. The progymnasmata exercise, chreia.
2. Employing an anecdote which relates a saying or deed of someone well known.

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Last Editor Ashley Rose Kelly
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Reviewer Ashley Rose Kelly