Dean Anderson (Leiden: Brill, 1998), and the Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, edited by Gert Ueding et al. Advanced students and scholars are directed to Heinrich Lausberg’s Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, edited by David E. Rebhorn and Frank Whigham (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007). Burton’s Silva Rhetoricae ( ) and George Puttenham’s 1589 The Art of English Poesy, edited by Wayne A. Terms (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) Gideon O. The glossary draws on three indispensible resources for the study of tropes, figures, and rhetorical terminology in general: Richard Lanham’s A Handlist of Rhetorical It is designed for readers approaching rhetoric for the first time, and its definitions should serve as points of departure for further exploration of the philological labyrinths of the lexicon rhetoricae. In light of Quintilian’s warning, this glossary of basic Greek and Latin rhetorical terms aims above all at clarity, economy, and simplicity. “Writers,” observes Quintilian, “have given special names to all the figures, but variously and as it pleased them” ( Institutio oratoria 9.3.54).
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