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Tirade is the most general of these, describing any long, critical speech; a harangue is particularly bombastic, usually inflaming the passions of listeners, and is the primary tool of the demagogue; a rant is primarily an instrument of catharsis, allowing the speaker to blow off steam, but not
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214:Ancient Rome
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1415:Wooden iron
1375:Rhetrickery
1350:Oral skills
1286:Composition
1221:Contrastive
1041:(c. 350 BC)
1031:(c. 350 BC)
1021:(c. 350 BC)
1011:(c. 350 BC)
1001:(c. 370 BC)
861:Demosthenes
841:Brueggemann
776:Ideological
627:Homileticsā
540:Declamation
530:Apologetics
380:Five canons
248:Renaissance
231:Middle Ages
1548:References
1483:Discourses
1476:; and the
1271:Technology
1261:Procedural
1081:(c. 50 BC)
1067:De Oratore
931:Quintilian
926:Protagoras
781:Metaphoric
705:Propaganda
588:Epideictic
502:Sotto voce
456:Persuasion
451:Operations
393:Dispositio
289:Chironomia
96:The terms
1496:Euripides
1488:Epictetus
1478:Diatribes
1466:Diatribes
1458:Diatribes
1385:Seduction
1216:Cognitive
1204:Subfields
1131:(100ā400)
886:Isocrates
826:Augustine
816:Aristotle
791:Narrative
741:Criticism
686:Philippic
600:Panegyric
583:Elocution
564:Dialectic
484:Situation
345:Facilitas
339:Enthymeme
318:Eloquence
300:Delectare
74:criticism
43:Rantering
1704:Category
1694:diatribe
1516:humorous
1498:states:
1492:Stoicism
1474:Cynicism
1256:Pedagogy
1236:Feminist
1007:Rhetoric
997:Phaedrus
991:(380 BC)
941:Richards
911:Perelman
759:Pentadic
754:Dramatic
698:Suasoria
676:Diatribe
617:Forensic
594:Encomium
559:Demagogy
428:Imitatio
400:Elocutio
386:Inventio
356:Informal
275:Concepts
202:Sophists
197:Calliope
187:Atticism
182:Asianism
150:Rhetoric
142:a series
140:Part of
122:harangue
114:diatribe
110:harangue
98:diatribe
62:Ī“Ī¹Ī±ĻĻĪ¹Ī²Ī®
58:diatribe
1301:Related
1276:Therapy
1266:Science
1231:Digital
1111:(c. 50)
1101:(46 BC)
1091:(46 BC)
1071:(55 BC)
1061:(80 BC)
1051:(84 BC)
987:Gorgias
956:Toulmin
951:Tacitus
901:McLuhan
876:Gorgias
871:Erasmus
866:Derrida
831:Bakhtin
821:Aspasia
786:Mimesis
749:Cluster
681:Eristic
671:Polemic
666:Oratory
644:Lecture
407:Memoria
351:Fallacy
294:Decorum
241:Trivium
169:History
82:sarcasm
70:oration
1360:Pistis
1355:Orator
1281:Visual
1191:(1970)
1181:(1966)
1171:(1521)
1161:(1305)
1097:Orator
1037:Topics
966:Weaver
896:Lysias
891:Lucian
881:Hobbes
856:de Man
851:Cicero
649:Public
632:Sermon
607:Eulogy
535:Debate
523:Genres
469:Pathos
435:Kairos
422:Hypsos
368:Scheme
333:Eunoia
313:Device
307:Docere
124:, and
118:tirade
106:tirade
84:, and
1486:, of
1480:, or
1151:(426)
1141:(102)
979:Works
946:Smith
936:Ramus
921:Plato
916:Pizan
846:Burke
836:Booth
771:Genre
766:Frame
509:Topos
494:Grand
489:Style
476:Logos
462:Ethos
446:Modes
373:Trope
78:humor
1529:Paul
1325:Doxa
1121:(95)
961:Vico
710:Spin
126:rant
108:and
102:rant
100:and
66:rant
18:Rant
1531:'s
1468:of
1400:TED
1246:New
906:Ong
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120:,
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