Brevitas Explained

Brevitas is a rhetorical style Rhetorica ad Herennium calls "the expressing of an idea by the very minimum of essential words".[1] [2]

By implying more than is said, it is distinguished from tautology and understatement.

Brevitas is related to concision, parataxis, sprezzatura and elliptic style.[3] [4] It contrasts with periphrasis, aureation and pleonasm.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Blacketer. The School of God: Pedagogy and Rhetoric in Calvin's Interpretation of Deuteronomy. 2006. 9781402039133.
  2. Web site: Changing Minds: Brevitas.
  3. Book: The Visible World: Samuel Van Hoogstraten's Art Theory and the Legitimation of Painting in the Dutch Golden Age . Amsterdam University Press . Thijs Weststeijn . 2008 . 231–234. 9789089640277 .
  4. Book: Literary Rhetoric: Concepts — Structures — Analyses . . Heinrich F. Plett . 2010 . 188. 978-9004171138 .

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