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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.
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").
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.
Invective: Nasty reply to critics: Aurelius and Furius: Catullus 16: 17: Latin English: O Colonia, quae cupis ponte ludere longo: priapean (= glyconic + pherecratean) 26: Invective: My acquaintance, the utter dunce: Verona: Catullus 17: 21: Latin English: Aureli, pater esuritionum: hendecasyllabic: 13: Invective: Hands off my boy-toy (cf. 15 ...
For example, the Odin article links to a list of names of Odin, which include kennings. A few examples of Odin's kennings are given here. A few examples of Odin's kennings are given here. For a scholarly list of kennings see Meissner's Die Kenningar der Skalden (1921) or some editions of Snorri Sturluson 's Skáldskaparmál .
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."
This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and then finally what language(s) the case is used in.
Libel is a verse genre primarily of the Renaissance, descended from the tradition of invective in classical Greek and Roman poetry. Libel is usually expressly political, and balder and coarser than satire. Libels were generally not published but circulated among friends and political partisans in manuscript.