Monday, December 5, 2011

A Favorite Word

Pericope



A pericope in rhetoric is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, thus forming a short passage suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred Scripture. It can be defined more simply as 'a selection or extract from a book'.  Oh, yeah - it's pronounced pə-ˈri-kə-pē.

Why did this image show up when googling 'pericope'?

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