exemplum

Examples

• All

• The Puonrostro manuscript was most probably not intended to be read from cover to cover; rather, the reader scanned the book for material to be incorporated into a lesson, disputation, or homily, all of which could use an exemplary tale to demonstrate a point or keep the audience interested, following the classic rhetorical use of the exemplum.

  Academic text (2003)

• Everything leads up to the moral exemplum developed in the third and final part of the poem, in which those who, like the apes, rob and take advantage of honest, industrious men are condemned.

  Academic text (2006)

• But the exemplum cannot be merely asserted, in secondary position.

  Academic text (2001)

• This is a type of writing in which historical fact is tempered with moral instruction; it is founded on a view of history as moral and Christian, a view compatible with the exemplum of the Middle Ages.

  Academic text (1991)

• The exemplum of the slave falling into the ditch is an incidental theology, advocating that, for adequate understanding, Anselm's works need to be read as a whole.

  Academic text (1992)

• A sermon exemplum from the mid-thirteenth century provides a revealing glimpse of the active role sculptures were expected to play as vehicles of identification and empathetic response.

  Academic text (2000)

• The elegy is directed to the living to replace their loss with the presence of memory, the concept of fame, and the evocation of the absent one in the guise of an exemplum which shall serve to guide and console the mourners.

  Academic text (1995)

• Rather, Zayas deliberately speaks from within that order, experimenting with the ironic, metacritical potential of the exemplum tradition that had long been a tool of male authors in shaping the behavior of readers, and she does so with a similar intention to be efficacious.

  Academic text (2003)

• Once they were convinced of her good intentions, Ermengarde tried to revive Aude's belief by narrating a pious eucharistic exemplum about a woman who baked the bread placenta for the Host.

  Academic text (2006)

• The epic is not the oral genre most immediately associated with the short story: Mary Louise Pratt, among other critics, has discussed the proximity of the written story to oral forms of the fairy tale, the exemplum, and the ghost story as it has influenced theoretical discourse surrounding the short story (189-91).

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

E

example

vsexemplum

∞ 1.0

A specific case used to explain a point

is a short narrative used to teach a moral rather than any instance

I

illustration

vsexemplum

61 3.2

An example or story that helps make a point clear

is specifically a short anecdote used to show a moral or principle

P

parable

vsexemplum

• Literature

36 5.2

A simple story that teaches a moral lesson

is used the same way but especially within literature or sermons

Antonyms

C

counterexample

• Specialized

5 7.4

An example that shows a statement is not always true

How Moral

parable

• Literature

36 5.2

exemplum

• Literature

9.9

tale

591 1.0

story

∞ 1.0

anecdote

102 4.1

Surface Forms

Etymology