Glossary of Rhetorical Terms

• Absurdity
• Accumulatio
• Acutezza
• Ad hominem
• Adjunction
• Aesthetics
• Aetiologia
• Affectus
• Agenda
- Alliteration
• Alloisis
• Ambigua
• Amplificatio
• Amplification
• Anacoenosis
• Anacoluthon
• Anadiplosis
• Analogy
• Anaphora
• Anastrophe
• Anecdote
• Animorum motus
• Antanaclasis
• Anthimeria
• Antimetabole
• Antinome
• Antiptosis
• Antistrophe
• Antithesis
• Antonomasia
• Aphaeresis
• Apocope
• Apokoinu
• Apophasis / Apophesis
• Aporia
• Aposiopesis
• Apostrophe
• Appeals
• Apposition
• Arete
• Argument
• Argumentum ad baculum
• Argumentum ad hominem
• Arrangement
• Ars arengandi
• Ars dictaminis
• Ars poetria
• Ars praedicandi
• Artistic proofs
• Assonance
• Asyndeton
• Audience
• Aureation
• Auxesis
• Axioms

• Backing
• Barbarism
• Bases
• Bathos
• Bdelygmia
• Belles lettres
• Begging the question
• Belletristic movement
• Bomphiologia
• Brachylogia
• Brevitas
• Burden of proof

• Canon
• Captatio benevolentiae
• Catachresis
• Charisma
• Chiasmus
• Circa rem
• Claim
• Classicism
• Climax
• Colon
• Colloquialism
• Common topics
• Consubstantiality
• Conclusio
• Confirmatio
• Confutatio
• Constraints
• Contingency
• Context
• Conversio
• Conversation model
• Cookery
• Critical theory
• Concession

• Data
• Deconstruction
• Deduction
• Delectare
• Delivery
• Demos
• Dialectic
• Diallage
• Dictamen
• Dispositio
• Dissoi logoi
• Distribution
• Divisio
• Docere
• Dramatistic
• Dysphemism

• Ecphonesis
• Ellipse
• Elocutio
• Enallage
• Energia
• Epanalepsis
• Epanaphora
• Epideictic
• Epiphora
• Epistemology
• Epistrophe
• Epithet
• Epizeuxis
• Eristic
• Erotema
• Ethos
• Ethopoeia
• Euphemism
• Evidence
• Exemplum
• Exordium
• Expression

• Fable
• Facetiae
• Facilitas
• Faculty psychology
• False consciousness
• Feminist rhetoric
• Fictio
• Field-dependent
• Field-invariant
• Figure
• Forensic oratory

• Gens
• Genera
• Graecismus

• Hasty Generalization
• Hendiadys
• Hermeneutics
• Heteroglossia
• Heuristics
• Homiologia
• Homoioteleuton
• Horismus
• Hypallage
• Hyperbaton
• Hyperbole
• Hypophora
• Hypothesis
• Hypsos
• Hypozeuxis
• Hysteron proteron

• Icon
• Identification
• Ideology
• If-by-whiskey
• Ignoratio elenchi
• Imitatio
• Inartistic proofs
• Indefinite questions
• Indignatio. To arouse indignation in the audience.
• Induction
• Ingenium
• In re
• Insultatio
• Interlacement
• Intersubjective agreements
• Invention
• Invitational rhetoric
• Ioci
• Irony
• Isocolon
• Issues of definition
• Issues of fact
• Issues of quality

• Jargon
• Judicial
• Juxtaposition

• Kairos
• Kategoria
• Koinoi topoi
• Koinonia
• Kolakeia

• Latinitas
• Lexis
• Literae humanae
• Litotes
• Localism
• Loci communes
• Locution
• Logical fallacy
• Logical positivism
• Logical proof
• Logology

• Major premise
• Magnanimity
• Material fallacy
• Maxim
• Memory
• Metanarrative
• Metaphor
• Metonymy
• Metron
• Minor premise
• Modus inveniendi
• Modus proferendi.
• Moral reasoning
• Motive
• Movere
• Mimesis

• Narratio
• Narration
• Necessary cause
• Negatio
• Neoplatonism
• Noema
• Nomos
• Non Sequitur
• Notaries

• Occupatio
• Opening
• Optatio
• Orcos
• Oxymoron

• Parachesis
• Paradeigma
• Paradiastole
• Paralipsis
• Parallel syntax
• Parallel structure
• Paraprosdokian
• Parenthesis
• Parisosis
• Parody
• Paromoiosis
• Paronomasia
• Pathos
• Perfectus orator
• Periphrasis
• Peroratio
• Personification
• Petitio
• Phallogocentrism
• Phronesis
• Physis
• Pian
• Pistis
• Plausibility
• Pleonasm
• Poetriae
• Polis.
• Polyphonic
• Polyptoton
• Polysyndeton
• Portrayal
• Position
• Positivism
• Postmodernism
• Praedicandi
• Praegnans constructio
• Pragmatism.
• Pragmatographia
• Presence
• Presumption
• Prolepsis
• Proof surrogate
• Prosopopoeia
• Pronuntiato
• Prudence
• Psogos
• Psychagogos
• Psyche
• Public sphere
• Poiesis

• Quadrivium
• Quaestiones

• Reasoning by contraries
• Rebuttal
• Res
• Rhetor
• Rhetores
• Rhetoric
• Rhetorical audience
• Rhetorical discourse
• Rhetorical opposition
• Rhetorical question
• Rhetorical situation
• Rhetorical theory

• Salience/Agenda; Meaning/Spin.
• Salon
• Salutatio
• Sannio
• Satire
• Scesis Onomaton
• Scholasticism
• Scientific method
• Scientific reasoning
• Scientism
• Scientistic
• Second Sophistic
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Sensus communis
• Sententia
• Shui
• Sign
• Signifying
• Simile
• Skepticism
• Solecismus
• Sophists
• Soraismus
• Sprezzatura
• Spin
• Starting points
• Stasis systen
• Status quo
• Straw man
• Studia humanitatis
• Syllepsis
• Syllogism
• Syllogistic logic
• Symbol
• Symbolic inducement
• Sympheron
• Symploce
• Synchysis
• Syncope
• Synecdoche

• Tapinosis
• Taste
• Tautologia
• Taxis
• Techne
• Terministic screens
• Theme
• Thesis
• Thesmos
• Tone
• Topical systems
• topographia
• topothesia
• Topos
• Toulmin Model
• Translative issue
• Tricolon
• Trivium
• Tropes

• Understatement
• Universal audience
• Utterance

• Validity
• Validity claim
• Verba
• Visual rhetoric
• Vir bonus dicendi peritus
• Vita activa

• Warrant
• Ways and means

• Zeugma