Rhetoric

Rhetoric (from Greek ?????, rhêtôr, "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar) in Western culture. In ancient and medieval times, both rhetoric and dialectic were understood to aim at being persuasive. The concept of rhetoric has shifted from time to time during its 2500-year history. Today rhetoric is generally described as the art of persuasion through language. Rhetoric can be described as a persuasive way in which one relates a theme or idea in an effort to convince. However, both the terms "rhetoric" and "sophistry" can be used today in a pejorative or dismissive sense, when someone wants to denigrate certain verbal reasoning as spurious.

See also

Civic humanism; Academic freedom; Artes Liberales; Visual rhetoric; Critical thinking; Fallacies; Intellectual dishonesty; Dialogue; Persuasion; Political rhetoric; Propaganda; Political dissent; Newspeak; Persuasion technology; Demagogy; Sophism; Public speaking; Elocution; Orator; Oratory; Related theory: Homiletics; Theories of communication; Literary theory; Language and thought; Linguistics; Technical communication; History: List of speeches; Miscellaneous: Monroe's motivated sequence.

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Civic humanism - Academic freedom - Artes Liberales - Visual rhetoric - Critical thinking - Fallacies - Intellectual dishonesty - Dialogue - Persuasion - Political rhetoric - Propaganda - Political dissent - Newspeak - Persuasion technology - Demagogy - Sophism - Public speaking - Elocution - Orator - Oratory - Homiletics - Theories of communication - Literary theory - Language and thought - Linguistics - Technical communication - List of speeches - Monroe's motivated sequence

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Rhetorical remedies

Literary topos; Logical fallacies; Rhetorical figure; Ad captandum; Allusion; anaptyxis; Ambiguity;apheresis; Aphorism; Apologue; Aposiopesis; Archaism; Atticism; Brachyology; Cacophony;Circumlocution; Climax; Conceit; Eloquence; Enthymeme; Ethos; Euphemism;

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Literary topos - Logical fallacies - Rhetorical figure - Ad captandum - Allusion - Anaptyxis - Ambiguity - Apheresis - Aphorism - Apologue - Aposiopesis - Archaism - Atticism - Brachyology - Cacophony - Circumlocution - Climax - Conceit - Eloquence - Enthymeme - Ethos - Euphemism

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Figure of speech; Formal equivalence; Hendiadys;Hysteron-proteron; idiom; Innuendo; Ipsedixitism; Kenning; List of pejorative political slogans; Merism;

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Figure of speech - Formal equivalence - Hendiadys - Hysteron-proteron - Idiom - Innuendo - Ipsedixitism - Kenning - List of pejorative political slogans - Merism

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Mnemonic; Negation; Overdetermination; Parable; Paraphrase; Paraprosdokian; Pericope; Period; Perissologia; Praeteritio; Proverb;Soundbite; Synchysis; Synesis; Synonymia; Tautology; Tertium comparationis; Trope; Truism; Word play.

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Mnemonic - Negation - Overdetermination - Parable - Paraphrase - Paraprosdokian - Pericope - Period - Perissologia - Praeteritio - Proverb - Soundbite - Synchysis - Synesis - Synonymia - Tautology - Tertium comparationis - Trope - Truism - Word play

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