A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms—mostly Greek and Latin—that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will find useful in their writing.

The Second Edition of this widely used work offers new features that will make it even more useful:

* A completely revised alphabetical listing that defines nearly 1,000 terms used by scholars of formal rhetoric from classical Greece to the present day

* A revised system of cross-references between terms

* Many new examples and new, extended entries for central terms

* A revised Terms-by-Type listing to identify unknown terms

* A new typographical design for easier access

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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms—mostly Greek and Latin—that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will find useful in their writing.

The Second Edition of this widely used work offers new features that will make it even more useful:

* A completely revised alphabetical listing that defines nearly 1,000 terms used by scholars of formal rhetoric from classical Greece to the present day

* A revised system of cross-references between terms

* Many new examples and new, extended entries for central terms

* A revised Terms-by-Type listing to identify unknown terms

* A new typographical design for easier access

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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

by Richard A. Lanham
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

by Richard A. Lanham

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With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms—mostly Greek and Latin—that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will find useful in their writing.

The Second Edition of this widely used work offers new features that will make it even more useful:

* A completely revised alphabetical listing that defines nearly 1,000 terms used by scholars of formal rhetoric from classical Greece to the present day

* A revised system of cross-references between terms

* Many new examples and new, extended entries for central terms

* A revised Terms-by-Type listing to identify unknown terms

* A new typographical design for easier access


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520912045
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/15/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Richard A. Lanham is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and President of Rhetorica, Inc., in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

1. Alphabetical List of Terms
2. The Divisions of Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery
3. The Terms by Type
4. Some Important Dates
5. Works Cited
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