Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the application of reason to imagination “for the better moving of the will.” Francis Bacon
It’s come to my attention that while we keep talking about ‘rhetoric’ in lectures and seminars not everyone is clear about what it is actually is.
To find out more, first read this: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/courses/sites/lunsford/pages/defs.htm
Then have a look at this: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm
(‘sesquipedalian’ means “Of words and expressions (after Horace’s sesquipedalia verba ‘words a foot and a half long’, A.P. 97): Of many syllables”, OED I also like the fact that it can refer to people a foot and a half tall).
The image on the left is of the Lady of Rhetoric; an explanation of the different symbols and references in the picture can be found here: http://im.bradley.edu/ell/303/lady.html
28 Nov 2009 16:39
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