This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and communications, discusses rhetoric's contributions to various fields, surveys the applications of this versatile discipline to the teaching of English and language arts, and illustrates its usefulness in all kinds of discourse, argument, and exchange of ideas.

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Excerpt from The Art of Elocution, as an Essential Part of Rhetoric: With Instructions in Gesture, and an Appendix of Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Extracts It has for 'object to give clearness and force to the meaning of What may be spoken, and full ex pression to\the feelings under which it may be Perspicuity and energy are as essential to Elocution \as they are to Rhetoric; of Which Elocution is a part. For in its primary signifi Cation Rhetoric had reference to public Speaking alone, as its etymology implies. 5 Elocution there fore IS a most essential element of Rhetoric. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.