Enumeration — English definition
The deliberate listing of items — such as grievances or rights — to build a cumulative, weighty case.
Where it is taught
- Rhetoric in Founding & Historical Documents — Public Argument, Rhetoric & Competing Accounts, English 11: American Voices, Identity & Public Memory, Grade 11
In use
From those premises the argument descends to particulars: a long enumeration of the king's abuses, grievance stacked upon grievance until the sheer accumulation feels like proof.
Rhetoric in Founding & Historical Documents