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Brigham Young University
The Forest of Rhetoric
Silva Rhetoricae
Rhetorical Figures
Rhetoric-Terms

Gideon O. Burton

A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric (Gideon Burton).

• What is Rhetoric?: Content / Form
• Encompassing Terms: Audience - Decorum
• Persuasive Appeals: Logos - Pathos - Ethos
• "Branches" of Oratory: Judicial - Deliberative - Epideictic
• Canons of Rhetoric: Invention - Arrangement - Style - Memory - Delivery
• Rhetorical Ability:
• Rhetorical Pedagogy: Rhetorical Analysis - Imitation - Rhetorical Exercises - Progymnasmata - Declamations
• Categories of Change:
• Rhetoric Timeline: "Roots" (Sources)

Rhetorical Figures

• -A-
• -A- abating | abbaser | abecedarian | abcisio | ablatio | abode, figure of | abominatio | abuse | abusio | abusion | acoloutha | accismus | accumulatio | accusatio adversa | accusatio | acervatio | acrostic | acyrologia | acyron | adage | adagium | addubitatio | adhortatio | adianoeta | adjectio | adjournment | adjudicatio | adjunct | adjunctio | admonitio | adnexio | adnominatio | adynata | adynaton | aeschrologia | aetiologia | affirmatio | affirmation | aganactesis | agnominatio | agnomination | aischrologia | allegory | alleotheta | alliteration | amara irrisio | ambage, figure of | ambiguitas | ambiguous | amphibologia | ampliatio | anacephalaeosis | anacoenosis | anacoloutha | anacoluthon | anadiplosis | anamnesis | anangeon | anaphora | anapodoton | anastrophe | anemographia | anesis | antanagoge | antenantiosis | anthimeria | anthropopatheia | anthypophora | anticategoria | anticipation | antilogy | antimetabole | antimetathesis | antipersonification | antiphrasis | antiprosopopoeia | antiptosis | antirrhesis | antisagoge | antistasis | antisthecon | antistrophe | antithesis | antitheton | antonomasia | apagoresis | aphaeresis | apocarteresis | apocope | apodioxis | apodixis | apologue | apophasis | apoplanesis | aporia | aposiopesis | apostrophe | apothegm | apparent refusal | appositio | apposition | ara | articulus | aschematismus | aschematiston | asphalia | assonance | assumptio | assumption | avancer, the | asteismus | astrothesia | asyndeton | auxesis | aversio
• -B-
• barbarism | battologia | bdelygmia | bomphiologia | brachiepia | brachylogia | broad floute, the
• -C-
• cacemphaton | cacophonia | cacosyntheton | cacozelia | casus pro casu | | catacosmesis | cataphasis | cataplexis | categoria | cause shown | change of name | characterismus | charientismus | chiasmus | chorographia | chreia | chronographia | circumlocutio | civille jest, the | clause | climax | coenotes | colon | combined repetition | comma | common cause | commoratio | communicatio | commutatio | comparatio | compensatio | complexio | compositum ex contrariis | comprobatio | conceit | concessio | conciliatio | conclusio | condescensio | condescension | conduplicatio | congeries | conjunctio | consonance | contencion | contentio | continued metaphor | contractio | contrarium | contrast | conversio | correctio | counterchange, the | counterfait in personation | counterfait place | counterfeit time, the | counter turne | cutted comma, the | cutting from the end
• -D-
• deesis | dehortatio | dendrographia | deprecatio | descriptio | diacope | diaeresis | dialogismus | dialysis | dialyton | dianoea | diaphora | diaporesis | diaskeue | diastole | diasyrmus | diazeugma | dicaeologia | digressio | | dirimens copulatio | distinctio | distributio | doubtfull, the
• -E-
• ecphonesis | ecphrasis | ecthlipsis | effictio | | ellipsis | emphasis | enallage | enantiosis | enargia | encomium | energia | enigma | ennoia | enthymeme | enumeratio | epanalepsis | epanodos | epanorthosis | epenthesis | epergesis | epexegesis | epicrisis | epilogus | epimone | epiphonema | epiplexis | epistrophe | epitasis | epitheton | episynaloephe | epitrochasmus | epitrope | epizeugma | epizeuxis | erotema | ethopoeia | eucharistia | euche | eulogia | eustathia | eutrepismus | example | excitatio | exclamatio | excursus | exergasia | exouthenismos | expeditio | expolitio | exuscitatio
• -F-
• frequentatio
• -G-
• geographia | gnome | graecismus
• -H-
• hendiadys | heterogenium | homiologia | homoeoprophoron | homoeosis | homoioptoton | homoioteleuton | horismus | hydrographia | hypallage | hyperbaton | hyperbole | hypophora | hypotyposis | hypozeugma | hypozeuxis | hysterologia | hysteron proteron
• -I-
• icon | indignatio | inopinaturm | insinuatio | interrogatio | inter se pugnantia | intimation | irony | isocolon
• -L-
• litotes
• -M-
• macrologia | martyria | maxim | medela | meiosis | membrum | mempsis | merismus | mesarchia | mesodiplosis | mesozeugma | metabasis | metalepsis | metallage | metaphor | metaplasm | metastasis | metathesis | metonymy | mimesis | mycterismus
• -N-
• noema
• -O-
• oeonismus | ominatio | onedismus | onomatopoeia | optatio | orcos | oxymoron
• -P-
• paenismus | palilogia | parabola | paradiastole | paradiegesis | paradigma | paradox | paraenesis | paragoge | paralipsis | parallelism | paramythia | parathesis | parecbasis | paregmenon | parelcon | parembole | parenthesis | pareuresis | paroemia | paroemion | paromoiosis | paromologia | parrhesia | pathopoeia | perclusio | periergia | period | periphrasis | perissologia | peristasis | permutatio | personification | philophronesis | pleonasm | ploce | polyptoton | polysyndeton | pragmatographia | procatalepsis | proclees | prodiorthosis | proecthesis | prolepsis | prosapodosis | proslepsis | prosonomasia | prosopographia | prosopopoeia | prosphonesis | protherapeia | prothesis | protrope | proverb | prozeugma | pysma
• -R-
• ratiocinatio | repetitio | repotia | restrictio | rhetorical question
• -S-
• sarcasmus | scesis onomaton | schematismus | scheme | scurra | skotison | sententia | sermocinatio | simile | solecismus | soraismus | sorites | subjectio | sustentatio | syllogismus | symperasma | symploce | synaeresis | synaloepha | synathroesmus | syncatabasis | syncategorema | synchoresis | synchysis | syncope | syncrisis | synecdoche | synoeciosis | synonymia | synthesis | syntheton | synzeugma | systole | systrophe
• -T-
• tapinosis | tasis | tautologia | taxis | thaumasmus | tmesis | topographia | topothesia | traductio | transitio | transplacement | tricolon
• -V-
• verborum bombus
• -Z-
• zeugma

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