anemographia

English

Noun

anemographia (uncountable)

1. The rhetorical enargia used to describe the wind.
   • 1991, Essays on Canadian Writing - Issues 43-46, page 24:

     The first three sections of the poem are an exercise in the classical mode of anemographia (description of the wind).

   • 1999 Winter, Brett Zimmerman, “A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, in Style, volume 33, number 4:

     I think it safe to conclude that Poe's prose suggests a fondness for parallel structure, sometimes antithetical. I have also catalogued nearly two dozen devices of description, from anemographia to triplets adjectival and adverbial, and conclude that Poe is a highly descriptive writer.

   • 1999, Marie-Louise Rodén, Ab Aquilone, page 10:

     The well-known inscription in the Vatican Torre dei Venti of the late 1570's, inspired by the anemographia of the Dominican astronomer Ignazio Danti, is a testimony, amongst several, of the not so good reputation of the peoples of the North Wind in the Eternal city, not rarely in the past a victim of their furor nordicus and of their heresies threatening to rock the boat of orthodoxy, "quella Santissima navicella."

   • 2007, Wendy Ellen Everett, Questions of Colour in Cinema: From Paintbrush to Pixel, page 134:

     Although it is tempting to look at colour in terms of each energia in turn (what could be said about a chromatic analysis of anemographia? ) for our purposes here, we will continue to focus on the temporal and spatial planes that articulate the figural cadences created by syncrisis.

   • 2015 January, Giorgio Baruchello, “A classification of classics. Gestalt psychology and the tropes of rhetoric”, in New Ideas in Psychology, volume 36:

     An analogous focus upon good continuation is to be found in the many forms of enargia or figures of description recorded by rhetoricians, such as anemographia (of wind), astrotesia (of stars), characterismus (of personality), chorographia (of nations), chronographia (of time), dendrographia (of trees), etc.