A comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion that brings together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications. (150 entries)
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Allegory
(Lat. inversio ) is a trope constituted by a semantic substitution. It can be realized as a metataxeme or as a metatexteme.
Ambiguity
As this term's everyday use implies, ambiguity centers on uncertainty. The ambiguous, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, drives both ways at once, while ambiguity is the
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Antithesis
Under the general denomination of antithesis (Gk. antithesis, antitheton; Lat. contentio, contrapositum ), authors usually gather together a varied and complex collection of
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Art
Only occasionally, and only indirectly does classical rhetoric touch on issues relating to pictorial art.
Color
This article focuses on the word color in ancient Roman rhetoric as a technical term for a range of strategies supporting a particular line of argumentation, especially in the
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Communication
Commonly defined as the transmission or exchange of ideas, communication relates to rhetoric in various small and large ways.
Composition
[ This entry comprises two articles. The first article provides a brief overview. The second article describes a history of English departments in the United States .]
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Controversy
What is involved when one is caught up in a controversy How are controversies initiated, spread, and resolved What are the stakes of controversy, and how can such stakes be
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Dialectic
In Gorgias (471e472d), Plato (c.428 -- c.347 bce ) has an exasperated Socrates attempt to explain to a particularly obtuse Polus that there are two types of
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Fallacies
According to a standard definition that was generally accepted until fairly recently, a fallacy is an argument that seems valid but is not.
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Abolitionist rhetoric
See African-American rhetoric , article on Abolitionist rhetoric .
Ad Hominem Argument
Argumentum ad hominem refers to a kind of argument in which the person is the focus of the argument, as opposed to objective evidence on which the argument may be based.
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Aesthetics
See Eloquence ; and Style .
African‐American rhetoric
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Alliteration
is an isophoneme that repeats an identical consonant at the beginning of successive words, thus creating a flow of similar sound structure.
Amplification
has a qualitative and a quantitative variant: vertical amplification and horizontal amplification.
Anadiplōsis
(Lat. reduplicatio ), called by Puttenham (The Arte of English Poesie , 1589 ) redouble, is an isomorpheme that repeats the last word or words of a clause,
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