Accumulatio

Accumulatio is a figure of speech, part of the broader group of enumeratio,[1] in which the points made previously are presented again in a compact, forceful manner. It often employs the use of climax in the summation of a speech.[2]

The word is Latin, from a verb meaning "to amass".

Examples
  • "Your organization, your vigilance, your devotion to duty, your zeal for the cause must be raised to the highest intensity." Winston Churchill, Speech, 14 July 1941. (This sentence comes after a lengthy passage in which Churchill warns the public that their courage and effort are still needed to defeat the enemy).
  • "He is the betrayer of his own self-respect, and the waylayer of the self-respect of others; covetous, intemperate, irascible, arrogant; disloyal to his parents, ungrateful to his friends, troublesome to his kin; insulting to his betters, disdainful of his equals and mates, cruel to his inferiors; in short, he is intolerable to everyone." (Suae pudicitiae proditor est, insidiator alienae; cupidus intemperans, petulans superbus; impius in parentes, ingratus in amicos, infestus cognatis; in superiores contumax, in aequos et pares fastidiosus, in inferiores crudelis; denique in omnes intolerabilis.) Attributed to Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium, IV.52
gollark: Stuff like my password manager information can't practically be stored elsewhere.
gollark: I have backups (ish). I'm concerned about unauthorized access to it more than losing it.
gollark: I do, in fact, have somewhat important things on my computer.
gollark: I want hardware and software which is less likely to randomly leak information or have security flaws. It's *really* bad for cloud providers.
gollark: And more bizarre artificial segmentation with overclocking and RAM speeds.

See also

References
  1. Dizionario di retorica e di stilistica, UTET, Torino, 2004.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-03-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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