A late calderonian work like the auto sacramental entitled El tesoro escondido (1679) reflects the culminating point of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's rhetorical style. This essay emphasizes the most significant rhetorical strategies used in this auto, stressing in particular the following: accumulation, epithet, etymology, exclamation, interrogation, metaphor, and parallelism. The richness of Calderón's rhetorical devices has yet to be studied in all its dimensions. It is the intention of this study that the analysis of several rhetorical figures in this auto proves useful in order to understand in depht Calderón's complex and efficient rhetorical system.
Abstract
A late calderonian work like the auto sacramental entitled El tesoro escondido (1679) reflects the culminating point of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's rhetorical style. This essay emphasizes the most significant rhetorical strategies used in this auto, stressing in particular [...]
Rhetorical Aspects of Calderón's Sacramental Play El tesoro escondido 