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  2. Consolatio - Wikipedia

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    The consolatio literary tradition ("consolation" in English) is a broad literary genre encompassing various forms of consolatory speeches, essays, poems, and personal letters. consolatio works are united by their treatment of bereavement, by unique rhetorical structure and topoi, and by their use of universal themes to offer solace. [3]

  3. Oral interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Historically essential to Charlotte Lee's definition of oral interpretation is the fact that the performer is "reading from a manuscript". This perspective, once the majority view, has long since become the minority opinion. Voice and movement technique is opsis ("spectacle") while oral interpretation is, conceptually, melopoiia ("music ...

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  5. Rhetorica ad Herennium - Wikipedia

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    The work focuses on the practical applications and examples of rhetoric. It is also the first book to teach rhetoric in a highly structured and disciplined form. Its discussion of elocutio (style) is the oldest surviving systematic treatment of Latin style, and many of the examples are of contemporary Roman events.

  6. Declamation - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Rome, declamation was a genre of ancient rhetoric and a mainstay of the Roman higher education system. It was separated into two component subgenres, the controversia, speeches of defense or prosecution in fictitious court cases, and the suasoria, in which the speaker advised a historical or legendary figure as to a course of action.

  7. Rhetorical operations - Wikipedia

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    [19] Amplification was considered at different times in history "a subset of both inventio and dispositio." [19] Aristotle mentions in The Poetics "maximizing and minimizing" as important elements in relation to amplification. [19] This is similar to the way we commonly think of amplification; that is going from something smaller and being ...

  8. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century copy of Bede's text, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. [2] Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English. [3]

  9. Literature of England - Wikipedia

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    The literature of England is literature written in what is now England, or by English writers. It consists mainly of English literature - i.e. literature written in the English language - but there are important examples of literature from England written in other languages.