By focusing on issues of cultivation and upward mobility, Blair overshadowed the prevailing opinions of rhetoric and capitalized on the 18th century belief in the potential to rise above one's station.

In the broadest sense, the term covers any rhetoric in which one refers to one's opponent in an ad hominem manner.

In rhetoric it is usually a hidden premise, which makes the conclusion of one's argument a non sequitur.

In Erin B. Waggoner's book Sexual rhetoric in the works of Joss Whedon, he found it interesting that the ancient Oedipus complex continues to be used as a way to underscore one's masculinity, but he added that " Connor is not the only one Angel, Wes, Spike and even Fred ( through Gunn ) kill father or father figures in order to come into their own as individuals.

Socrates proceeds with a monologue, and reiterates that he was not kidding about the best use of rhetoric, that it is best used against one's own self.

Michel Foucault developed the concept of parrhesia as a mode of discourse in which one speaks openly and truthfully about one's opinions and ideas without the use of rhetoric, manipulation, or generalization.

In literature, drama, and rhetoric, sotto voce is again used to denote emphasis attained by lowering one's voice rather than raising it, similar to the effect provided by an aside.

In political and economic jargon, a " backflip " can refer to either the changing of one's policy stance or the excessive use of rhetoric to make a point intentionally obscure and thus free from scrutiny.

Normatively, the phrase can be used to describe the effort to suit one's rhetoric to the widest possible audience, without losing relevant information in the process.

Many scholars have argued in favor of affirmative action on the argument that so-called merit standards for hiring and educational admissions are not race-neutral for a variety of reasons, and that such standards are part of the rhetoric of neutrality through which whites justify their disproportionate share of resources and social benefits.

Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric was one of the reasons why the UK and France decided that Soviet participation in the 1938 Munich Conference regarding Czechoslovakia would be both dangerous and useless.

" This statement reported that " strains of an old anti-Jewish tradition are present in the way we ourselves sometimes speak and in the rhetoric and ideas of some writers that we may read " regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Despite the profound differences regarding their ethical and world visions, Albizu's fiery and charismatic rhetoric captured Balaguer's imagination and his recollection of this occasion was a harbinger of his passion for politics and intellectual debate.

In 1996 CAIR published a report The Usual Suspects regarding its perception of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the media after the crash of TWA Flight 800.

The subject matter of Semba is often a cautionary tale or story regarding day-to-day life and social events and activities, usually sung in a witty rhetoric.

The new political rhetoric regarding the family reintroduced the concept of the nuclear family, and, in doing so, cemented the idea that the woman were responsible for the domestic realm and running the home.

Riggs defended Tongues Untied for its ability to “ shatter this nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference .” He explained that the widespread attack on PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts by moral critics in response to the film was predictable, since “ any public institution caught deviating from their puritanical morality is inexorably blasted as contributing to the nation's social decay .” In his defense, Riggs claimed that “ implicit in the much overworked rhetoric about ' community standards ' is the assumption of only one central community ( patriarchal, heterosexual and usually white ) and only one overarching cultural standard ( ditto ) to which television programming must necessarily appeal .” Riggs stated that ironically, the censorship campaign against Tongues Untied actually brought more publicity to the film than it would have otherwise received and thus allowed it to achieve its initial aim of challenging societal standards regarding depictions of race and sexuality.

It gained notoriety due to its violent rhetoric and because of several exposés regarding the group's stockpiling of weapons and its plans for armed attacks.

The subject matter of Semba is often a cautionary tale or story regarding day-to-day life and social events and activities, usually sung in a witty rhetoric.

" In the language of the Church ’ s social teachings, development communication policies should lead to “ establishing new relationships in human society, under the mastery and guidance of truth, justice, charity and freedom — relations between individual citizens, between citizens and their respective States, between States, and finally between individuals, families, intermediate associations and States on the one hand, and the world community on the other .” In this way, the formulation of such communication policies could be performed based mainly on the developing world rhetoric of nation-building, but at the same time taking serious cognizance of its universal implication and global impact.

Elocutio is the term for the mastery of stylistic elements in Western classical rhetoric and comes from the Latin loqui, " to speak ".

She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.

Through the ages, the study and teaching of rhetoric has adapted to the particular exigencies of the time and venue.

Aristotle also identifies three different types or genres of civic rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial, was concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past, issues of guilt ), deliberative ( also known as political, was concerned with determining whether or not particular actions should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial, was concerned with praise and blame, values, right and wrong, demonstrating beauty and skill in the present ).

" That is, what effects does this particular use of rhetoric have on an audience, and how does that effect provide more clues as to the speaker's ( or writer's ) objectives?

Philosophers such as Condorcet, who drafted the French revolutionary chart for a people's education under the rule of reason, dismissed rhetoric as an instrument of oppression in the hands of clerics in particular.

When manuals were redrafted in the mid-century, in particular after the 1848 Revolution to formulate a national curriculum, care was taken to distance their approach to rhetoric from that of the Church, which was seen as an agent of conservatism and reactionary politics.

At the same time, Aristotelian rhetoric, owing to a revival of Thomistic philosophy initiated by Rome, regained ground in what was left of Catholic education in France, in particular at the prestigious Faculty of Theology of Paris, now a private entity.

The new linguistic turn, through the rise of semiotics as well as of structural linguistics, brought to the fore a new interest in figures of speech as signs, the metaphor in particular ( in the works of Roman Jakobson, Michel Charles, Gérard Genette ) while famed Structuralist Roland Barthes, a classicist by training, perceived how some basic elements of rhetoric could be of use in the study of narratives, fashion and ideology.

Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, his contemporary, makes references to rhetoric, in particular to the Pre-Socratics.

Poster " Study the great path of the Lenin-Stalin Party " Simultaneously, however, many people who profess Marxism or Leninism view Stalinism as a perversion of their ideas ; Trotskyists, in particular, are virulently anti-Stalinist, considering Stalinism a counter-revolutionary style of governance that used vaguely Marxist-sounding rhetoric to achieve power.

In the years preceding the massacre, Huguenot " political rhetoric " had for the first time taken a tone against not just the policies of a particular monarch of France, but monarchy in general.

Its chief historical origins as narrative, philosophical or didactic device are to be found in classical Greek and Indian literature, in particular in the ancient art of rhetoric.

The goal of rhetoric is to persuade towards a particular frame of view or a particular course of action, so appropriate rhetorical devices are used to construct sentences designed both to make the audience receptive through emotional changes and to provide a rational argument for the frame of view or course of action.

The " Wobblies " as they were commonly known, gained particular prominence from their incendiary and revolutionary rhetoric.

Debates between the Socialist Party of Great Britain and other groups were of particular importance in bringing the party case to an outside audience without the sometimes off-putting rhetoric of platform speaking, or the one-sidedness of educational talks.

The slogan itself was never actually government or even rebel policy ; for all its rhetoric, Satsuma in particular had close ties with the West, purchasing guns, artillery, ships and other technology.

It could also demonstrate how the constraints of a particular situation shape the rhetoric that responds to it.

A rhetorician should, at this point, draw comparisons with other established works of rhetoric to determine how well the artifact fits into a particular category or if it redefines the constraints of that category as well as how the elements illuminate the motivation and perspectives of a rhetor.

Downtown music is not distinguished by any particular principle, but rather by what it does not do: it does not confine itself to the ensembles, performance tradition, and musical rhetoric of European classical music, nor to the commercially defined conventions of pop music.

In rhetoric, particular audiences depend on circumstance and situation, and are characterized by the individuals that make up the audience.

They have had a particular interest in the discourses and rhetoric of emerging political and social movements, as against only highly visible actions like demonstrations and uprisings.

Stone noted two uses of prosopography as a historians ' tool: first, in uncovering deeper interests and connections beneath the superficial rhetoric of politics, in order to examine the structure of the political machine ; and second, in analysing the changing roles in society of particular status groups — holders of offices, members of associations — and assessing social mobility through family origins and social connections of recruits to those offices or memberships.

He made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition.