Enumeratio

The enumeratio (Latin for enumeration and in rhetoric for recapitulation, summarizing repetition ) or enumeration is a rhetorical figure that denotes the exhaustive enumeration of the parts of a superordinate whole. It implies completeness or isolation from other elements. - example:

• “Children, adults and the elderly - all love the book.” It is a special form of the general list called accumulatio .

The listing of two parts as a fixed, formulaic phrase is called Hendiadyoin .

A final compilation at the end of a speech or an argument is called a recapitulatio .

literature

• Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 5.