Exemplum: Figure of amplification using an example, brief or extended, real or fictitious, to illustrate a point; an example.

Examples

"All this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. Now, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed."

-- as delivered by George C. Scott (from the movie Patton)

"I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain accepted thoughts and speech are mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist."

-- Charleton Heston, Winning the Cultural War

Note: Don't miss the allusion

"When we put our minds to a problem, we find solutions. But our scientists can do more; we've got to give them the chance. And that means more funding for research. Right now, for example, about a quarter million Americans have a spinal chord injury."

-- Christopher Reeve, 1996 Democratic National Convention Address

"There are other great lessons [in football] too. For example, there are hundreds of thousands of Americans that take part in this game annually, and yet it is completely uninhibited by either racial or social barriers."

-- Vince Lombardi

"We have tried since the year of nineteen hundred and thirty-five to educate our local unions to the acceptance of area-wide contracts. As an example, we have 165,000 members in New York city; we have 147,000 in Chicago; we have 140,000 in Los Angeles. And we have many joint councils of 85,000 throughout the United States."

-- Jimmy Hoffa, 1962 Address at the Harvard Law Forum

"Arachnids from all three groups possess various strengths which help them in their constant search for food. For example, the Delana spider, family Sparassidae, has the ability to jump to catch its prey."

-- delivered by Una Damon, from the movie Spider-Man

"Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask 3-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic -- that we should actually let them develop some language skills. You know, I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the Government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail, rather than win an argument against his political opponents. So...at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true 6 months before the media admitted it. And that's -- that's my understanding."

-- JD Vance, Address in Allentown, Pennsylvania