rhetoric, the elocution, diction, or choice of words in a discourse. See Composition.

painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject, or of the several objects intended to be shewn.

The expression consists chiefly in representing the human body and all its parts, in the action suitable to it: in exhibiting in the face the several passions proper to the figures, and observing the motions they impress on the external parts.