Encomiums

noun

1. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
2. A general category of oratory.
3. A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
4. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
5. 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.