Rhetorical Terms

May 31, 2008 1:34 AM

"...the aspiring speaker needs no knowledge of the truth about what is right or good... In courts of justice no attention is paid whatever to the truth about such topics; all that matters is plausibility..." A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with examples.
posted by sluglicker (7 comments total)

Very interesting post, thank you . . . I stopped studying lit-crit after my first year of university, that's both a great memory jog of things I'd forgotten and an ever better exposure of my general ignorance!
posted by protorp at 2:24 AM on May 31, 2008

This is porn to me. Fap fap fap!
posted by telstar at 2:38 AM on May 31, 2008

I'll be checking back for the comment that uses all of those.
posted by StickyCarpet at 4:26 AM on May 31, 2008

You sir, are a turnip. That's MY rhetoric.
posted by blue_beetle at 5:14 AM on May 31, 2008

Previous posts on rhetorical terms: 1, 2.
posted by languagehat at 6:00 AM on May 31, 2008

This is excellent, thank you.

And the Churchill quotation had the hairs on my arms standing up.
posted by djgh at 6:19 AM on May 31, 2008

I didn't start becoming obsessed with words and language until after school, so much of the academic side of this is still new to me. I didn't even know many of these were actual devices with names. A great read.Thanks!

djgh: And the Churchill quotation had the hairs on my arms standing up.
Which one - they use a bunch of Churchill quotes - a few of them could make the hairs on your arms stand!
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 9:03 AM on May 31, 2008