TERMS: Handbooks/Lists of Rhetorical Devices/Figures of Speech
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Silva
Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
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Good general overview of rhetoric and ancient rhetorical education. For a TOC of ther site see: trees.htm
- Rhetorical Figures Quick and easy list from UK
- A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices Another good one
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- Figures of Speech Tables A selection, with unusually thorough discussion and examples.
Glossary of Literary Terms Not Rhetorical but still useful
Grammars of English
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- My choice. Substantial, traditional, lots of definitions of basic concepts. Good on restrictive/nonrestrictive clauses, etc. Worth serious browsing
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English
Grammar on the Web
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Links to Grammar resources.
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Grammar
Slammer--English Grammar Resource
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Pretty good-quick and basic
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The
Internet Grammar of English
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Substantial. Good on clauses, phrases, etc.
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- Dictionaries, Library Resources, etc.
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- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
- OED Online - Welcome
Indo-European
Roots Index. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000
Encyclopedias (General)
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online\
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Various References. Bartleby.com
Rhetoric Resources
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DOUGLASS
DIRECTORY : General Resources for Rhetoric
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U.
Iowa Communication Studies: Rhetorical Studies Resources
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Communication
Studies Resources - University of Iowa
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Very rich site: for advertising, oral interpretation, etc. etc.
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Rhetoric/Composition
Resources
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Very rich page.
Introduction to Classical Rhetoric
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- Ancient Rhetoric: an Introduction
- Malcolm Heath's page. V. scholarly, esp. interesting for specimens of rhetorical exercises.
Ancient Rhetorical Exercises (progymnasmata)
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Aphthonius
Progymnasmata
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Ancient rhetorical exercises: tr. Malcolm Heath.
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Libanius
Progymnasmata
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Ancient rhetorical exercises: tr. Malcolm Heath.
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Advanced
Exercises: declamation
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M. Heath
Ancient Texts
Gorgias (ca. 483-380):
Gorgias' Encomium of Helen.
- Good list of most prominent features of Gorgianic style.
- Also cf. this Short encyclopedia entry on Sophists (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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(Another Encomium by Isocrates, Athenian teacher of rhetoric and rival of Plato, reputedly the pupil of Gorgias)