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The "genre of invective" or "vituperatio" in Latin is a classical literary form used in Greek and Roman polemical verse as well as in prose. Its primary context is as rhetoric . The genre of vituperatio belongs to the genus demonstrativum , which is composed of the elements of praise and blame.
Originally "iambos" (ἴαμβος) denoted a type of poetry, specifically its content, and only secondarily did it have any significance as a metrical term.This emerges for example from the fact that Archilochus, a famous iambic poet, was once criticized for being "too iambic" [nb 1] The genre appears to have originated in the cult of Demeter, whose festivals commonly featured insulting and ...
The prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
The "Type" column is color-coded, with a green font indicating poems for or about friends, a magenta font marking his famous poems about his Lesbia, and a red font indicating invective poems. The "Addressee(s)" column cites the person to whom Catullus addresses the poem, which ranges from friends, enemies, targets of political satire, and even ...
Long strings of invective can be connected in this way, and the resulting expression does not have to have any concrete meaning—for example, Mon ostie de saint-sacrament de câlice de crisse (literally, "My host of (the) holy sacrament of (the) chalice of Christ").
For example, adults may have punished you harshly for mistakes. "You might naturally feel self-protective and become defensive when someone expresses anger, frustration or disappointment to you ...
A notable example is the deliberate erasure of Mendelssohn from the annals of German music, as evidenced by Hans Joachim Moser's contributions in the 1920s. [P 42] In 1952, while engaged in the composition of the Lexicon of Musical Invective, Nicolas Slonimsky was reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "anti-American activities."
Examples include the very tiny handle on maple syrup bottles, faux buckles on shoes, the floppy disk 'save' icon, or the sound of a shutter on a cell phone camera. Image credits: Festina_lente123 #12