Figures of Place

Place is a general concern of rhetoric both literally and figuratively (see below). Specific figures regarding place, all of which are examples of enargia, include

• topographia (vivid description of a given place)
• topothesia (vivid description of an imaginary place)
• chorographia (vivid descriptoin of a given nation)
• geographia (vivid description of the earth)

See Also

• kairos (Like time, place is an essential aspect of general circumstances necessary to be considered. Settings constrain how and what a speaker says.)
• topics of invention or "commonplaces." (These are the mainstay of rhetorical invention.)
• Progymnasmata exercise: commonplace
• A short, pithy, saying—snonymous with adage, apothegm, gnome, maxim, paroemia, proverb, or sententia.
• branches of oratory (According to Aristotle Greek oratory was categorized according to three specific kinds of occasions, each of which he associated with a given place (a law court, a legislative assembly, a ceremony).)
• Progymnasmata: description, encomium, vituperation. (For each of these basic rhetorical exercises "place" was a suggested subject matter to be described, praised, or blamed.)