Variations may occur because there are different kinds of openings, different kinds of middles, and different kinds of closings. In other words, openings, middles, and closings may have very different kinds of texture. Click here for examples. Thus, both the thesis and its opposite cannot be true. An opposite contrasts with a contrary , which is an alternative that can be true at the same time but is not satisfactory in the same context.
Communication is done solely with the spoken word.
This differs from rhetorical culture where oral speech and written text continually interact with one another. Oral expansion is typical in a rhetorical culture . One of the ways a text configures and reconfigures is to use, either explicitly or without reference, language from other texts. Click here for examples.