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==[http://rhetoric.byu.edu/ Silva Rhetorica]==
This online [[rhetoric]], provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University Brigham Young University], is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
This site is intended to help beginners, as well as [[experts]], make sense of [[rhetoric]], both on the small scale ([[definitions]] and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the [[purposes]] of rhetoric, the [[patterns]] into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
A [[forest]] is the [[metaphor]] for this site. Like a forest, rhetoric provides tremendous [[resources]] for many purposes. However, one can easily become lost in a large, complex habitat (whether it be one of wood or of wit). The [[organization]] of this central page and the hyperlinks within individual pages should provide a map, a discernible [[trail]], to lay hold of the utility and [[beauty]] of this language [[discipline]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
==[http://rhetoric.byu.edu/ Silva Rhetorica]==
This online [[rhetoric]], provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University Brigham Young University], is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
This site is intended to help beginners, as well as [[experts]], make sense of [[rhetoric]], both on the small scale ([[definitions]] and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the [[purposes]] of rhetoric, the [[patterns]] into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
A [[forest]] is the [[metaphor]] for this site. Like a forest, rhetoric provides tremendous [[resources]] for many purposes. However, one can easily become lost in a large, complex habitat (whether it be one of wood or of wit). The [[organization]] of this central page and the hyperlinks within individual pages should provide a map, a discernible [[trail]], to lay hold of the utility and [[beauty]] of this language [[discipline]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
