Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Authors

• Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow

Keywords

online rhetoric, classical rhetoric, rhetorical terms

Abstract

This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.

This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).

Original Publication Citation

“Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric” (1996-2019) rhetoric.byu.edu. Award-winning scholarly resource.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Burton, Gideon, "Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric" (1996). Faculty Publications. 9699.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9699

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

English

University Standing at Time of Publication

Assistant Professor

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