English Rhetoric

abstract According action alliteration aposiopesis appeal arguments Aristotle asked audience beautiful become believe better century city-states classical clause common concrete connotations create dead death developed discussion effect emotions emphasized English example express eyes face fact fall feel figures of speech function give Greek hand head hear heart human ideas important involve irony Italy kind knowledge language light literal living Look meaning metaphor mind nature never noun object opposite oratory parallelism period person phrases political practice Press principles question reader reason refers repetition rhetoric sense sentence serve short simile sometimes sound speaker speaking specific statement style substitutes term theory things thought truth understand whole words writing