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Humanities > Rhetoric

Preferred term

Rhetoric  

Definition

  • Art of expressive speech or discourse; specifically, the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by ancient critics and interpreted by classical scholars for application to discourse in the vernacular [AAT 94]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Composition, written, rhetoric
  • Discourse, rhetoric
  • Speech, rhetoric
  • Writing, rhetoric
  • Written composition, rhetoric

Notation

  • 118159

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-K126TLNB-Q

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