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Owing to its origin in ancient Greece and Rome, English rhetorical theory frequently employs Greek and Latin words as terms of art. This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order.
Rhetorical movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that emphasized considerations of style in rhetoric, expanding rhetoric into a study of literature literacy criticism, and writing generally.
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples. This glossary came to us from our late colleague Ross Scaife, who encountered it during his graduate studies at the University of Texas. Chris Renaud gave it to him, stating that it originated with Ernest Ament of Wayne State University. Ross, in turn, added some additional examples.
The Handbook traces the history of Western rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome to the present and surveys the role of rhetoric in more than 30 academic disciplines and fields of social practice.
29 cze 2024 · Rhetoric is the principles of training communicators—those seeking to persuade or inform. In the 20th century it underwent a shift of emphasis from the speaker or writer to the auditor or reader. This article deals with rhetoric in both its traditional and its modern forms.
3 lut 2014 · The first section elucidates how rhetoric adds impact to the building blocks of historiography, such as in choices of vocabulary and interlinked metaphor and wordplay; these are enhanced by recitatio, the practice of reading literary works to an invited audience.
3 lut 2014 · This chapter argues that “rhetoric”—a term probably coined by Plato—is a philosophical invention and an attempt to tame logos, in particular the sophist’s logos and its effects. Beginning with Plato’s Gorgias, ontology invented rhetoric to domesticate—to spatialize—time in discourse.
