RhetFig
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Only reason I was able to deduce this was because I have a big book on rehtoric, anadilopolis is not something that comes up in other contexts, and it is indeed the proper use of technical terminology to call somethig a scheme in rhetroic.
Super cool site though! Basically, it associates a rhetorical figure with its taxonomic classification (in terms of rhetoric), its linguistic associations, and its conceptual associations. For example anadipolis is repetition of the same morpheme at the ending position of the word so its associated with two concepts, repetition and positon. —i think thats waht anadipolisis is anway, been a while since ive brushed up on it (might be repetition at the start not the end)
edit: just looked it up, anadipolis is repetition of te end of one clause at the beginning of the next. (thus the association to repetition and position)
Really neat stuff!
"Rhetorical figures" are more commonly rendered as "figures of speech", according to Wikipedia. Website seems to be made by people in the English Language and Literature department of Waterloo, so maybe not linguistics (which I think of as a soft science) but more like a humanities.
The handlist of rhetorical terms, while not as exhaustive has a ton of great knowledge as well and covers all the key bits: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520273689/a-handlist-of-rhe...
And yes, it’s more common to just call these things figures of speech these days. But rhetoric was a rather sophisticated and complex field of study back in the day. Its lost its luster and is rarely formally studied these days expect in very small circles, presumably of politicians and other important speechifiers.
The latins abd medievals really had developed it into quite the art. They went so far as to distinguish the speeches sonic effects from its emotional ones, both of which were seperate from its logical import, and all of which were controllabe to degrees by the deployment of certain figures.
Technology has made these arts wither in a way as a lot of the impetus for their practice was driven by the need to keep the memory sharp—its easier to recall a set of several repetable rythmic figures than a freeform prose speech wihout fixed patterns—similar techniques were used in the recitation of oral myths—these days we dont need these “wetware” techniques as much since we have so many other technological memory supports.