Thus in Rome, rhetoric while useful, was largely academic. Cicero on the Genres of Rhetoric Introductory explanations to and translation from De inventione , Partitiones oratoriae , and Rhetorica ad Herennium , by John F. Tinkler. Thirteen types of tropes metaphor, catachresis, metalepsis, metonymy, antonomasia, epitheton, synecdoche, onomatopoeia, periphrasis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, allegory, and homoeosis. Modern and ancient authorities cited. A Glossary of Literary Terms Choose your term from lists of pull-down menus.
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Menu-free form is available . The whole list on one page, from abcedarian poem to zeugma. Index page is also available. Although the author eschews trope collecting. Isocrates Todd Evans' biography of the rhetorician who made a literary form of oratory.