Encyclopedia - Logos: Encyclopedia - Logos
The Greek word λόγος or logos is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word" but can also mean thoug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logos: Encyclopedia Ii - Logos - Use In Rhetoric
In rhetoric, logos is one of the three modes of persuasion (the other two are pathos, emotional appeal, and ethos, the qualification of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logos: Encyclopedia Ii - Logos - Use In Christianity
In Christianity, it is often suggested that the prologue of the Gospel of John calls Jesus the Logos (usually translated as "the Word" in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antimetabole: Encyclopedia - Antimetabole
In rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in reverse grammatical order (ex: "I know what I like, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Rhetoric
Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amplification: Encyclopedia - Amplification
Amplification refers to the act and the means of extending thoughts or statements to increase rhetorical effect, to add importance, or to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne C. Booth: Encyclopedia - Wayne C. Booth
Wayne Clayson Booth (February 22, 1921 – October 10, 2005) was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophical Analysis: Encyclopedia - Philosophical Analysis
Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Phi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catachresis: Encyclopedia - Catachresis
Catachresis is the (usually intentional) use of any figure of speech that flagrantly violates the norms of a language community. Compare ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apophasis: Encyclopedia - Apophasis
Apophasis (Late Latin, from Greek apophanai, "to say no" [1]) refers, in general, to "mentioning by not mentioning". Apophasis has specif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Climax Figure Of Speech: Encyclopedia - Climax Figure Of Speech
In rhetoric, climax is a figure of speech, in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. It is some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bad: Encyclopedia - Bad
Bad is a concept used to describe undesirable circumstances or events. Though bad often is used to imply moral turpitude of a person, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aposiopesis: Encyclopedia - Aposiopesis
Aposiopesis (from Classical Greek, ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") is the term for the rhetorical device by which the speake...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antisthenes: Encyclopedia - Antisthenes
Antisthenes (c. 444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, was born at Athens of a Thracian mother. In his youth he stud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Periphrasis: Encyclopedia - Periphrasis
Periphrasis, like its Latin counterpart circumlocution, is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly express...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonomasia: Encyclopedia - Antonomasia
Antonomasia is a rhetoric device: the substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name; the opposite substitution of a proper name...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Coast Of The United States: Encyclopedia - West Coast Of The United States
In general, the term "West Coast" is a nickname for the coastal states of the Western United States, comprising California, Oregon and W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ad Nauseam: Encyclopedia - Ad Nauseam
Ad nauseam is a Latin term used to describe something that has been continuing "to the point of nausea." For example "This topic has been...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biblical Criticism: Encyclopedia - Biblical Criticism
Biblical criticism is a form of Historical Criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions of the text, such a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aulus Gellius: Encyclopedia - Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius (c. AD 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auxentius: Encyclopedia - Auxentius
Auxentius (fl. c. 355 died 374), by tradition a Scythian of Cappadocia was an Arian theologian of some eminence who held the see of Milan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aelius Donatus: Encyclopedia - Aelius Donatus
Aelius Donatus (fl. late 4th century AD) was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. The only fact known regarding his life is that h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alliteration: Encyclopedia - Alliteration
Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symbolism: Encyclopedia - Symbolism
Symbolism is the systematic or creative use of arbitrary symbols as abstracted representations of concepts or objects and the distinct re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bekker Numbers: Encyclopedia - Bekker Numbers
Bekker numbers are the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle. They take their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kairos: Encyclopedia Ii - Kairos - In Rhetoric
Kairos was cental to the Sophists, who stressed the rhetor's ability to adapt to and take advantage of changing, contingent circumstances...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apophasis: Encyclopedia Ii - Apophasis - In Rhetoric
Apophasis is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. As such,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhetoric - History
Rhetoric - Introduction. The scholarly literature on the 2500-year history and theory of rhetoric in Western culture is far too volumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhetoric - History
Rhetoric - Introduction. The scholarly literature on the 2500-year history and theory of rhetoric in Western culture is far too volumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophical Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophical Analysis - Meaning
Main articles: Meaning, and Philosophy of language, and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorgias: Encyclopedia Ii - Gorgias - Introduction
Due to his ushering in of rhetorical innovations involving structure and ornamentation and his introduction of paradoxologia – the idea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophical Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophical Analysis - Arguments
Main articles: Logical argument, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Overdetermination: Encyclopedia Ii - Overdetermination - For Richards And Literature
The New Critic I.A. Richards used the idea of overdetermination in order to explain the importance of ambiguity in rhetoric, the philosop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inventio: Encyclopedia Ii - Inventio - Topoi
In classical rhetoric, arguments are obtained from various sources of information, or topoi (from the Greek for "places"; i.e. "places to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - In Rhetoric
Anthropomorphism in the form of personification consists of creating imaginary persons who are the embodiment of an abstraction such as D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - In Rhetoric
Anthropomorphism in the form of personification consists of creating imaginary persons who are the embodiment of an abstraction such as D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Longinus Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Longinus Literature - Writing Style And Rhetoric
Despite its faults, the treatise remains critically successful because of its “noble tone,” “apt precepts,” “judicious attitude...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Individual Events: Encyclopedia Ii - Individual Events - Individual Events: The Events Themselves
There are many types of events included in any Individual Events competition, and these events vary by state and/or conference. They incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sophism: Encyclopedia Ii - Sophism - Origins
The meaning of the word sophist (gr. sophis meaning "wise-ist," or one who 'does' wisdom; cf. sophós, "wise man", cf. also wizard) has c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Examples Of Metonymy
Some common examples of metonymy are: The pen is mightier than the sword (pen is a metonym for writers and the exchange of ideas; sword ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trope: Encyclopedia Ii - Trope - Linguistic Usage
A trope is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i.e. using a word in a way other than what is considered its l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defeasible Reasoning: Encyclopedia Ii - Defeasible Reasoning - Origins In Philosophy
Though Aristotle differentiated the forms of reasoning that are valid for logic and philosophy from the more general ones that are used i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Quintilian's Works
The only extant work of Quintilian is his masterwork, a twelve-volume textbook on rhetoric entitled Institutio Oratoria. It is important ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Metonymy As A Rhetorical Strategy
Metonymy can also refer to the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. For example, in J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Straw Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Straw Man - In Logic And Rhetoric
A straw-man argument is the practice of refuting a weaker argument than an opponent actually offers. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Metonymy As A Rhetorical Strategy
Metonymy can also refer to the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. For example, in J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Synecdoche And Metonymy
Synecdoche, where a specific part of something is taken to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. Some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trope: Encyclopedia Ii - Trope - Tropes In Philosophy
Trope - In Philosophy of history. The use of tropes has been extended from a linguistic usage to the field of philosophy of history by,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Metonymy And Metaphor
Metonymy works by contiguity rather than similarity. The White House is associated with, or near, the president; a writer always has a pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Metonymy Vs. Metaphor
Metonymy works by contiguity rather than similarity. The printing press produces newspapers (hence, "the press" for the news media); food...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Question Mark: Encyclopedia Ii - Question Mark - Variants In Other Languages And In History
In some languages, such as Spanish and Galician, typography since the 18th century has required opening and closing question marks; an in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Question Mark: Encyclopedia Ii - Question Mark - Variants In Other Languages And In History
In some languages, such as Spanish and Galician, typography since the 18th century has required opening and closing question marks; an in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logorrhoea: Encyclopedia Ii - Logorrhoea - Logorrhoea As A Description Of Rhetoric
The word logorrhoea is often used pejoratively to describe prose that is highly abstract and contains little concrete language. Since abs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ad Hominem: Encyclopedia Ii - Ad Hominem - Ad Hominem As Logical Fallacy
A (fallacious) ad hominem argument has the basic form: A makes claim B; there is something objectionable about A, therefore claim B is f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metonymy: Encyclopedia Ii - Metonymy - Synecdoche And Metonymy
Synecdoche, where a specific part of something is taken to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. Some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trope: Encyclopedia Ii - Trope - Literary Usage
In literature, a trope is a familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inventio: Encyclopedia Ii - Inventio - Stasis
The procedure known as stasis was another important part of the invention process. This involved the practice of posing and exploring que...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Figure Of Speech: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of Speech - Classification
Figures of speech have been classified into a number of different categories. Most figures originated out of centuries of philological co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mikhail Bakhtin: Encyclopedia Ii - Mikhail Bakhtin - Influence
Throughout his lifetime Bakhtin made a significant contribution to the world of literary and rhetorical theory and criticism. He is known...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Sociology And Linguistics Of Lying
George Lakoff, in criticizing some claims of George W. Bush made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, notes that: Are they lies—or ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses Ibn Ezra: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses Ibn Ezra - His Rhetoric
Far more successful was the "Kitab al-Muḥaḍarah wal-Mudhakarah," a treatise on rhetoric and poetry, which was composed on the lines o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Institutio Oratoria
Quintilian - Introduction. As mentioned above, Quintilian wrote his book during the last years of the reign of Emperor Domitian. In the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philip Sidney: Encyclopedia Ii - Philip Sidney - On Method Apology
Sidney’s approach to censorship in Apology is through his use of rhetorical devices. Censorship is one problem Sidney had to overcome w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychobabble Jargon: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychobabble Jargon - Groups Prone To Its Use
Sources that are often suggested to be using psychobabble include the phraseology of New Agers, self-help groups, personal development co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Education: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Education - The Overall Organization
Classical education developed many of the terms now used to describe modern education. Western classical education has three phases, each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecphrasis: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecphrasis - From Form To Ecphrasis
It was this epitome, this template of the ideal form, that a craftsman or later an artist would try to reconstruct in his attempt to achi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pedophile Activism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pedophile Activism - Impacts Of Scientific Papers On Pedophilia Advocacy
Pedophile activists often attempt to refute scientific research that finds all sexual contact between adults and children to be harmful. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chiasmus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chiasmus - Examples
Chiasmus - Chiasmus: broader sense. These examples are often quoted by modern commentators to demonstrate chiasmus, although most are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hugh Blair: Encyclopedia Ii - Hugh Blair - Major Works
Blair is best known for the publication of three major works: A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, Son of Fingal, Sermons, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johannes Nucius: Encyclopedia Ii - Johannes Nucius - Works And Influence
Nucius's music shows the influence of Lassus above all. He published two collections of motets, containing a total of 102 pieces, as well...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barbarian: Encyclopedia Ii - Barbarian - Hellenic Stereotype
Out of those sources the Hellenic stereotype was elaborated: barbarians are like children, unable to speak or reason properly, cowardly, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trivia: Encyclopedia Ii - Trivia - Etymology
A number of theories have been put forward as to the etymology of the word "trivia". One variation dates to early Latin, from the prefix ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Influences Of Earlier Greek Ethical Systems
Aristotle's ethics builds upon earlier Greek ethics, particularly that of Aristotle's teacher Plato and his teacher, Socrates. One import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poet Laureate: Encyclopedia Ii - Poet Laureate - Origin Of The Term
The laurel, in ancient Greece, was sacred to Apollo, and as such was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes; and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giambattista Vico: Encyclopedia Ii - Giambattista Vico - Response To The Cartesian Method
As he relates in his autobiography, Vico returned to Naples from Vatolla to find “the physics of Descartes at the height of its renown ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trope: Encyclopedia Ii - Trope - Tropes In Music
Trope - In Jewish religious liturgy. The Old Testament is referred to by Jews as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. The standard text acce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apples And Oranges: Encyclopedia Ii - Apples And Oranges - Apples And Oranges In Teaching The Use Of Units
While references to "comparing" apples and oranges is often a rhetorical device, references to "adding" apples and oranges are made in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Fairclough: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Fairclough - Methodology Of Cda
Fairclough's line of study, also called textually oriented discourse analysis or TODA, to distinguish it from philosophical enquires not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lowest Common Denominator: Encyclopedia Ii - Lowest Common Denominator - Figurative Uses
The term is used figuratively to refer to the "lowest"—least useful, least advanced, or similar—member of a class or set which is com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Code Word Figure Of Speech: Encyclopedia Ii - Code Word Figure Of Speech - Politics
In recent US political context, this refers to words or phrases allegedly used by neo-conservatives to reassure right-wing followers; a s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tenth Crusade: Encyclopedia Ii - Tenth Crusade - Tenth Crusade
In the September 7, 2002 issue of Counterpunch, columnist Alexander Cockburn authored an opinion column titled "The Tenth Crusade" in whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nahj Al Balagha: Encyclopedia Ii - Nahj Al Balagha - Etymology
Nahj means open way, road, course, method or manner Balaghah means eloquence, art of good style and communication, rhetoric etc ... See...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Renaissance Humanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Renaissance Humanism - As A Literary Movement
Humanists placed a heavy emphasis on the study of primary sources, or the original texts, rather than the study of the interpretations of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A People's History Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - A People's History Of The United States - Criticisms
Although widely praised in leftist political circles, the book is not without its critics, primarily from conservatives, such as Dan Flyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trope: Encyclopedia Ii - Trope - Literary Usage
In literature, a trope is a familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Code Word Figure Of Speech: Encyclopedia Ii - Code Word Figure Of Speech - Professional
Professionals may use code words to send messages to one another in the presence of a client or customer. For example, a customer support...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rainbow Nation: Encyclopedia Ii - Rainbow Nation - Rainbow Influence
Rainbow Nation, as a spoken metaphor for South African unity is uniquely (although not deliberately) represented by the internationally a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Poetry - Overview Of Christian Poetry
Poetic forms have been used by Christians since the recorded history of the faith begins. The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphor - Aspects Of Metaphor
Metaphor - Scope and definition. A metaphor is, commonly, a figure of speech used to paint one concept with the attributes normally ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Poetry - Tools
Poetry - Sound. Perhaps the most vital element of sound in poetry is rhythm. Often the rhythm of each line is arranged in a particular ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philip Sidney: Encyclopedia Ii - Philip Sidney - Influence An Apology For Poetry
Sir Philip Sidney’s influence can be seen in the work of the poet and critic, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley’s modern argument for poe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Clouds: Encyclopedia Ii - The Clouds - The Plot
The play opens with a citizen of Athens, Strepsiades (whose name means "Twister"), bemoaning the addiction of Pheidippides, his pretty-bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pleonasm: Encyclopedia Ii - Pleonasm - Pleonasm Usage
Often pleonasm is understood to mean an excess word or phrase which is unnecessary, clichéd, or wrong. But a pleonasm can also be simply...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Republican In Name Only: Encyclopedia Ii - Republican In Name Only - Rhetoric
The term RINO originated in the 1990s and came into widespread usage around 2000 [1]. It is used by conservatives to delegitimize moderat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pleonasm: Encyclopedia Ii - Pleonasm - Pleonasm Usage
Often pleonasm is understood to mean an excess word or phrase which is unnecessary, clichéd, or wrong. But a pleonasm can also be simply...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controversy: Encyclopedia Ii - Controversy - In Propaganda
The term is not always used in a purely descriptive way. The use of the word tends itself to create controversy where none may have authe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-irony: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-irony - Theorising Self-irony
Self-irony is a conception of self that is disembodied and reflexive. It is disembodied in the sense that it can be inscribed into texts,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logos: Encyclopedia Ii - Logos - Similar Concepts
Within Eastern religions there are ideas with varying degrees of similarity to the philosophical and Christian uses. Two concepts with so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logos: Encyclopedia Ii - Logos - Use In Ancient Philosophy
In ancient philosophy, Logos was used by Heraclitus, one of the more eminent Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, to describe human knowledge...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap V - L
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages V - L . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. &...   » Read the article