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91Modern Rhetoric — has gone through many changes since the age of ancient Rome and Greece to fit the societal demands of the time. Kenneth Burke, who is largely credited for defining the notion of modern rhetoric, described modern rhetoric as, “Rooted in an… …
92Erich Auerbach — (November 9, 1892 ndash; October 13, 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best known work is Mimesis , a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern… …
93Odysseus' scar (Auerbach) — Odysseus Scar is the first chapter of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a collection of essays by German Jewish philologist Erich Auerbach charting out the development of representations of reality in literature. It… …
94University of Wisconsin-Madison Forensics Team — Infobox generic style0 = class= infobox style= width:25em; font size:90%; color = lightgray name = University of Wisconsin Madison Forensics Team| img1 = width1 = | hdr1 = About the Team lbl1 = University: row1 = University of Wisconsin Madison… …
95Lexis (Aristotle) — Lexis (lek sis) A Greek word meaning: A complete group of words in a language, vocabulary, the total set of all words in a language, all words that have meaning or a function in grammar. Lexis according to Plato According to Plato, lexis is the… …
96literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
97Description — For other uses, see Description (disambiguation). Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms… …
98Michael Leff — was an internationally known U.S. scholar of rhetoric. He was a Professor and served as Chair of the Department of Communications Studies at the University of Memphis. Before teaching at the University of Memphis he held faculty positions at The… …
99Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature — (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of literary criticism by Erich Auerbach, and his most well known work. Written while Auerbach was teaching in Istanbul, Turkey, where he fled after being… …
100Metaphor — This article is about the figure of speech. For other uses, see Metaphor (disambiguation). A political cartoon from an 1894 Puck magazine by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart, shows a farm woman labeled Democratic Party sheltering from a tornado of… …
