Catacosmesis (kat-a-kos-mees’-is): Ordering words from greatest to least in dignity, or in correct order of time.
Birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age. Life’s phases narrate time.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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