Rhetoric

Vocabulary: lcsh

Type: Topic

Note: Here are entered advanced level works on the skillful or artistic organization of oral or written discourse, usually for exposition or persuasion. Elementary and/or secondary level works on written composition are entered under Composition (Language arts).

Note: Note under Composition (Language arts)

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Language and languages — Rhetoric

| Speaking

Broader Concepts

Authorship

Narrower Concepts

Abstracting

| Alienation (Rhetoric)

| Aposiopesis (Rhetoric)

| Closure (Rhetoric)

| Complaints (Rhetoric)

| Criticism

| Debates and debating

| Description (Rhetoric)

| Diction

| Digression (Rhetoric)

| Discourse analysis, Literary

| Elocution

| Exposition (Rhetoric)

| Figures of speech

| Grammar, Comparative and general — Parenthetical constructions

| Implied author (Rhetoric)

| Invention (Rhetoric)

| Irony

| Lectures and lecturing

| Music and rhetoric

| Narration (Rhetoric)

| Openings (Rhetoric)

| Oratory

| Paragraphs

| Persona (Literature)

| Persuasion (Rhetoric)

| Punctuation

| Readability (Literary style)

| Repetition (Rhetoric)

| Signifying (Rhetoric)

| Socialism and rhetoric

| Transition (Rhetoric)

Related Concepts

Expression

| Style, Literary

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Rhetoric

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