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Elocutio (lexis or phrasis in Greek)[1][2] is a Latin term for the mastery of rhetorical devices and figures of speech in Western classical rhetoric.[2]Elocutio or style is the third of the five canons of classical rhetoric (the others being inventio, dispositio, memoria, and pronuntiatio) that concern the craft and delivery of speeches and writing.[1]
^ abLanham, Richard (1991). A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780520076693.
^ abCrowley, Sharon (1999). Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students. Debra Hawhee (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. p. 229. ISBN 0-205-26903-6. OCLC 38390395.
Elocutio (lexis or phrasis in Greek) is a Latin term for the mastery of rhetorical devices and figures of speech in Western classical rhetoric. Elocutio...
classical rhetoric (the first being inventio, and the remaining being elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio) that concern the crafting and delivery of speeches...
movement, with the help of Sheridan and Walker. (Another area of rhetoric, elocutio, was unrelated to elocution and, instead, concerned the style of writing...
be organized for greatest effect, usually beginning with the exordium elocutio (style) determining how to present the arguments memoria (memory) the process...
compelling. The other four canons of classical rhetoric (namely dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio) rely on their interrelationship with invention...
five canons of classical rhetoric (the others being inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and memoria) that concern the crafting and delivery of speeches. In literature...
style; in others, as genre, literary mode, point of view, mood, or tone. Elocutio Figure of speech Rhetorical device Webster (1969) Ray (2015, p. 16) Aquilina...
five canons in classical rhetoric (the others being inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and pronuntiatio) concerned with the crafting and delivery of speeches...
here did add to rhetoric: it concentrated more on the remaining aspect of elocutio or effective use of language, and emphasised the role of vernacular European...
rhetoric in a highly structured and disciplined form. Its discussion of elocutio (style) is the oldest surviving systematic treatment of Latin style, and...
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