How to pronounce “encomium”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
• (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
• (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
• The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
• (literature) 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.

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