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... style , for Renaissance rhetoric ( following in the steps of Cicero ) taught that a given style is necessary to produce a given effect upon an audience . As G. L. Hendrickson has pointed out , Aristotle's division of rhetoric soon gave ...
... style , for Renaissance rhetoric ( following in the steps of Cicero ) taught that a given style is necessary to produce a given effect upon an audience . As G. L. Hendrickson has pointed out , Aristotle's division of rhetoric soon gave ...
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... style with the power to move partly explain the emphasis which the Renaissance placed upon " copiousness " and upon the figures of rhetoric with which the style can be embellished . All rhetoricians were convinced that the object of ...
... style with the power to move partly explain the emphasis which the Renaissance placed upon " copiousness " and upon the figures of rhetoric with which the style can be embellished . All rhetoricians were convinced that the object of ...
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... style closely related to the Sophistic tradition recorded by the Elder Seneca for the benefit of his sons . The flowers of rhetoric bloom luxuriantly in Senecan tragedy . As Elizabethan tragedy de- veloped , the formal and florid style ...
... style closely related to the Sophistic tradition recorded by the Elder Seneca for the benefit of his sons . The flowers of rhetoric bloom luxuriantly in Senecan tragedy . As Elizabethan tragedy de- veloped , the formal and florid style ...
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