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kennethudutOh this is amazing. https://t.co/MJBoEvSJMF
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
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Dana HuffLearne the termes of rhetorique heere
The Forest of Rhetoric
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David A. HaleGuide to rhetoric from Brigham Young University.
Kairos (the right time), Audience, Decorum.
Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos (reason, emotion, reputation)
Oratory: Judicial (accuse/defend), Deliberative (exhort/dissuade), Epideictic (praise/blame)
Canons: Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, Delivery
Rhetorical ability and pedagogy.rhetoric writing oratory literature prose communication debate argument
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Michele DayThis online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
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marrtiGideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.
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langlitlinksGideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.
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The forest of rhetoric is so crowded with flowers that it is sometimes better sampled selectively.
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cataphasis<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Greek in Greek" --> 
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<!-- #BeginEditable "Pronunciation" -->kat-af'-a-sis <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Etymology" -->Gk. "an affirmation"<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Alt Spelling" -->affirmation <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Latin Synonyms" --><!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "English Synonyms" --><!-- #EndEditable -->
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<!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Definition" --> A kind of paralipsis in which one explicitly affirms the negative qualities that one then passes over.<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "explanation" --><!-- #EndEditable --> Examples <!-- #BeginEditable "Examples" -->I will say nothing here of his fraudulent practices. -
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<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Pronunciation" -->kat-a-kree'-sis <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Etymology" -->Gk. “misuse”<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Alt Spelling" -->abusio<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Latin Synonyms" -->figure of abuse, abusion<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "English Synonyms" --><!-- #EndEditable -->
<!-- #BeginEditable "bullet" --> <!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Definition" --> The use of a word in a context that differs from its proper application.<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "explanation" -->This figure is generally considered a vice; however, Quintilian defends its use as a way by which one adapts existing terms to applications where a proper term does not exist.<!-- #EndEditable --> Examples <!-- #BeginEditable "Examples" --> In this example, what is meant is conveyed through a misapplication of one part of the body to another.
As one said that disliked a picture with a crooked nose, "The elbow of his nose is disproportionable" —J. SmithThe word "parricide" literally means a killer of one's father, but for lack of proper terms, is also used to refer to killing one's mother or brother:
In his rage at Gertrude, Hamlet nearly became a parricide like his uncle.In this example, no parallel idiom to "sight unseen" exists for things auditory, so the idiom is wrenched from its proper context to this unusual one.
He was foolish enough to order the new music CD sight unseen.Similarly, there is no word comparable to "sightseeing" for a similar sort of tour done with sound, and so a familiar (if technically inappropriate) use of "seeing" is used:
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polyptoton<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Greek in Greek" --> 
<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Pronunciation" -->po-lyp-to'-ton<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Etymology" -->from Gk. poly, "many" and ptotos, "falling" or ptosis, "[grammatical] case" <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Alt Spelling" -->paragmenon<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Latin Synonyms" -->traductio, adnominatio<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "English Synonyms" -->the tranlacer, many inflections<!-- #EndEditable -->
<!-- #BeginEditable "bullet" --> <!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Definition" --> Repeating a word, but in a different form. Using a cognate of a given word in close proximity.<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "explanation" --><!-- #EndEditable --> Examples <!-- #BeginEditable "Examples" -->With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
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proslepsis<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Greek in Greek" --> 
<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Pronunciation" -->pros-leep'-sis<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Etymology" -->from Gk. pros, "toward" and leepsis, "a taking"<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Alt Spelling" -->assumptio, circumductio<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Latin Synonyms" -->assumption <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "English Synonyms" --><!-- #EndEditable -->
<!-- #BeginEditable "bullet" --> <!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Definition" --> When paralipsis (stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over) is taken to its extreme. The speaker provides full details. <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "explanation" --><!-- #EndEditable --> Examples <!-- #BeginEditable "Examples" -->It would be unseemly for me to dwell on Senator Kennedy's drinking or womanizing, or to call your attention to the recent scandal regarding the purported rape at Au Bar where, some have said, he has passed the torch of alcoholism and womanizing to a new generation. -
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<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Pronunciation" -->me-ta-lep'-sis<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Etymology" -->from Gk. meta, "change" and
lambanein "to take" ("to change the sense") <!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Alt Spelling" -->transumptio<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "Latin Synonyms" -->transumption, the farrafet<!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "English Synonyms" --><!-- #EndEditable -->
<!-- #BeginEditable "bullet" --> <!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #BeginEditable "Definition" --> Reference to something by means of another thing that is remotely related to it, either through a farfetched causal relationship, or through an implied intermediate substitution of terms. Often used for comic effect through its preposterous exaggeration. A metonymical substitution of one word for another which is itself figurative. <!-- #EndEditable --> <!-- #BeginEditable "explanation" --><!-- #EndEditable --> Examples <!-- #BeginEditable "Examples" --> Pallid death
The effect of death is to make the body pale. Ascribing this effect to death itself as an adjective here is an example of metalepsis.He is such a lead foot.
This means, "he drives fast" but only through an implied causal chain: Lead is heavy, a heavy foot would press the accelerator, and this would cause the car to speed.In Laurence Sterne's novel, Tristram Shandy, Tristram blames his troubled life and character (the effect) on his parents' ill-timed conception of him (the remote cause)—a rather comical and extended example of metalepsis. <!-- #EndEditable -->
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ennoia 
en-no'-i-a Gk. "a thought in the mind, intention"
invitio A kind of purposeful holding back of information that nevertheless hints at what is meant. A kind of circuitous speaking. <!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/Related Figures.lbi" --> Related Figures<!-- #EndLibraryItem -->
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paralipsis 
par-a-lip'-sis from Gk. para, "side" and leipein, "to leave"
("to leave to one side")
Also sp. paraleipsis, paralepsis
antiphrasis, parasiopesis
occultatio, occupatio,
praeteritio, preteritio, praetermissio
the passager, preterition Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony. <!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/Example.lbi" --> Example<!-- #EndLibraryItem -->
It would be unseemly for me to dwell on Senator Kennedy's drinking problem, and too many have already sensationalized his womanizing...
Melville's narrator of Moby Dick, Ishmael, manages to characterize Queequeg in the very act of stating he will pass over such details:
We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare. —Moby Dick "Breakfast"<!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/Related Figures.lbi" --> Related Figures<!-- #EndLibraryItem -->
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