What is the meaning of Encomium?

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

A general category of oratory.

A method within rhetorical pedagogy.

The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.

A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

an Ancient Greek literary genre of praise

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Praise, eulogy.

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