Explore: Rhetoric (speech)

appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric, or phases of developing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention

uncommon or easily misunderstood figure of speech is used). It can also come in the form of roundabout speech wherein many words are used to describe something

is Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, On Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric. Aristotle is credited with developing the basics of a system of rhetoric that

fundamental component of rhetoric, analyzed by prominent thinkers. Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, identified three types of speeches: deliberative (political)

In rhetoric, a climax (Ancient Greek: κλῖμαξ, klîmax, lit. "staircase" or "ladder") is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged

rhetoric is widely considered a form of hate speech, which is illegal in countries such as the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric often

—Martin Luther King Jr. (1963) Widely hailed as a masterpiece of rhetoric, King's speech invokes pivotal documents in American history, including the Declaration

article "The 'Ideograph': A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology" which appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech in 1980. He begins his essay by defining

the text more emphatic. Scholars of classical Western rhetoric have divided figures of speech into two main categories: schemes and tropes. Schemes (from

the final part of a speech, had two main purposes in classical rhetoric: to remind the audience of the main points of the speech (recapitulatio) and to