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121Individual events (speech) — Individual events is a type of speech competition characterized by individuals competing in a variety of different events. These events span the areas of public speaking, acting, reading and interpretation. Sometimes confused with competitive… …
122Sermo Lupi ad Anglos — The Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ( The Sermon of the Wolf to the English ) is the title given to a homily composed in England between A.D. 1010 1016 by Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York (died 1023), who commonly styled himself Lupus , or wolf after the… …
123Anatomy of Criticism — Herman Northrop Frye s Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye… …
124Johannes Nucius — (also Nux, Nucis) (c. 1556 – March 25, 1620) was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished composer in the style of …
125Inventio — is the system or method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning invention or discovery . Inventio is the central, indispensable canon of rhetoric, and traditionally means a systematic search… …
126Thrasymachus — (Θρασύμαχος) (ca. 459 400 BCE) was a sophist of Ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato s Republic . The Historical ThrasymachusThrasymachus was a citizen of Chalcedon, on the Bosphorus. His career appears to have been spent as a… …
127Apophasis — Not to be confused with Apophysis. Apophasis (Late Latin, from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀποφάναι apophanai, to say no [1]) refers, in general, to mention by not mentioning . Apophasis covers a wide variety of figures of speech. Contents 1 Apophasis 2… …
128Hermogenes of Tarsus — (Greek: polytonic|Ἑρμογένης ὁ Ταρσεύς) was a Greek rhetorician, surnamed the polisher (Greek polytonic|Χυστήρ). He flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161 180).His precocious ability secured him a public appointment as teacher of his… …
