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    The Rhetoric to Alexander (also widely known by its title in Latin: Rhetorica ad Alexandrum; Ancient Greek: Τέχνη ῥητορική) is a treatise traditionally...
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    humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writers use to inform, persuade, and motivate their audiences. Rhetoric also provides...
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    is Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, On Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric. Aristotle is credited with developing the basics of a system of rhetoric that...
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    Visual rhetoric is the art of effective communication through visual elements such as images, typography, and texts. Visual rhetoric encompasses the skill...
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    New rhetoric is an interdisciplinary field approaching for the broadening of classical rhetorical canon. New rhetoric is a result of various efforts of...
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    fact, the term “progymnasmata” first appeared in Chapter 28 of Rhetoric to Alexander, most likely written by Anaximenes of Lampsacus in the late fourth...
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    Constitutive rhetoric is a theory of discourse devised by James Boyd White about the capacity of language or symbols to create a collective identity for...
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    Kairos (category Rhetoric)
    Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric", John Poulakos defines rhetoric from a Sophistic perspective as follows: "Rhetoric is the art which seeks to capture in opportune...
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    Nicomachean Ethics, in relation to the other Ethical Writings included among the Works of Aristotle". In Grant, Alexander (ed.). The Ethics of Aristotle...
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    is one of the three kinds of rhetoric described by Aristotle. Deliberative rhetoric juxtaposes potential future outcomes to communicate support or opposition...
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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader...
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    lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The trivium is implicit in De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the...
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    Eristic (category Rhetoric)
    philosophy and rhetoric, eristic (from Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of chaos, strife, and discord) refers to an argument that aims to successfully dispute...
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    In rhetoric, a scheme is a type of figure of speech that relies on the structure of the sentence, unlike the trope, which plays with the meanings of words...
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    /-ˈlimɪk/ -⁠LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position. The...
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    Glossophobia List of speeches Obituary Panegyric Persuasion Public orator Requiem Rhetoric Category:Speeches by type Speechwriter Speakers' bureau Thematic interpretation...
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  • Pistis (section In rhetoric)
    rhetorical technique. Pistis in rhetoric can mean "proof" and is the element to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give "proof" of a statement...
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    Modes of persuasion (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    rhetorical appeals (Greek: pisteis) are strategies of rhetoric that classify a speaker's or writer's appeal to their audience. These include ethos, pathos, and...
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    Procedural rhetoric or simulation rhetoric is a rhetorical concept that explains how people learn through the authorship of rules and processes. The theory...
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    but are used to give the impression of a clear meaning. An ideograph in rhetoric often exists as a building block or simply one term or short phrase that...
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    Literary topos (category Rhetoric)
    Latin locus (from locus communis), refers to a method for developing arguments (see topoi in classical rhetoric). Topos is translated variously as "topic"...
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    Contrastive rhetoric is the study of how a person's first language and his or her culture influence writing in a second language or how a common language...
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    On the Sublime (category Rhetoric)
    out excess of rhetoric and the pompous, unnatural techniques of the schools of eloquence as the causes of decay, Tacitus was nearer to Longinus in thinking...
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  • Gorgias (dialogue) (category Pages with Ancient Greek (to 1453) IPA)
    self-proclaimed rhetoricians seeking the true definition of rhetoric, attempting to pinpoint the essence of rhetoric and unveil the flaws of the sophistic oratory popular...
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    style (also referred to as 'high style') is a style of rhetoric, notable for its use of figurative language and for its ability to evoke emotion. The term...
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    appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out...
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    theorist Mikhail Bakhtin notes that it was "the diatribe, not classical rhetoric, that exercised a defining influence on the generic characteristics of...
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    figures such as politicians as a capstone to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving. The term is...
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    Modern rhetoric has gone through many changes since the age of ancient Rome and Greece to fit the societal demands of the time. Kenneth Burke, who is largely...
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    Things Heard On the Universe (De Mundo, 4th or 3rd century BC) Rhetoric to Alexander Secretum Secretorum The Theology of Aristotle Physiognomonics (circa...
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