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His 1960 treatise, Handbook of literary rhetoric, is one of the most complete and detailed summaries of classical rhetoric from the perspective of Quintillian's quadripartita ratio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-051363-9. Dana Gioia. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Longman, 2005. ISBN 0-321-33194-X. Sharon Hamilton. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises. W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-92837-3.
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 ...
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. He is known best for his Dictionary of Literary Terms (published in several editions), described by the Times Educational Supplement as ‘scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining…an indispensable work of reference.’
Metanoia (from the Greek μετάνοια, metanoia, changing one's mind) in the context of rhetoric is a device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way. [1]
Handbook of Technical Writing, by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu The Little Style Guide to Great Christian Writing and Publishing, by Leonard G. Goss and Carolyn Stanford Goss — provides a distinctively religious examination of style and language for writers and editors in religion, philosophy of religion , and theology
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A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (revised 5th ed., 2012) [10] Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present: An Introduction (2011) [11] Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century (2010) [4] [5] [12] Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History (2008) [13] A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present (2005) [1]