He knew rhetoric, and often used figures of speech and rhetorical forms which cannot easily be reproduced in translation, depending as they often do on the connotations of the Latin words.

In 1970, Richard Young, Alton Becker, and Kenneth Pike published Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, a widely influential college writing textbook that used a Rogerian approach to communication to revise the traditional Aristotelian framework for rhetoric.

These commentaries used political rhetoric to promote a state in which the Emperor, as " Son of Heaven ," should extend his sphere of influence to barbarous lands, thereby gladdening the people.

Hitler used populist rhetoric, including blaming scapegoats — particularly the Jews — for the economic hardships.

The term metaphor is also used for the following terms that are not a part of rhetoric:

" These two documents were very influential in shaping the rhetoric used in papal documents.

Non-liberal politicians often used the same political rhetoric, but were less active in implementing it.

In speeches, as well as in non-verbal forms, rhetoric continues to be used as a tool to influence communities from local to national levels.

Many American colleges and secondary schools used Blair's text throughout the 19th century to train students of rhetoric.

Today the term rhetoric can be used at times to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.

'" When Aristotle characterizes rhetoric as the antistrophe of dialectic, he no doubt means that rhetoric is used in place of dialectic when we are discussing civic issues in a court of law or in a legislative assembly.

Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but now considered to be of unknown authorship, is one of the most significant works on rhetoric and is still widely used as a reference today.

This work provided a simple presentation of rhetoric that emphasized the treatment of style, and became so popular that it was mentioned in John Brinsley's ( 1612 ) Ludus literarius ; or The Grammar Schoole as being the " most used in the best schooles.

Methodological rhetorical criticism is typically done by deduction, where a broad method is used to examine a specific case of rhetoric.

Using close textual analysis means rhetorical critics use the tools of classical rhetoric and literary analysis to evaluate the style and strategy used to communicate the argument.

In the early 1960s a change began to take place, as the word rhetoric and the body of knowledge it covers began to be used again, in a modest and almost secret manner.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

In Latin rhetoric and poetry homeoteleuton and alliteration were frequently used devices.

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.

A century after the publication of The Age of Reason, Paine's rhetoric was still being used: George Foote's " Bible Handbook ( 1888 ).

Between 1892, when Harvard and Yale met in the first intercollegiate debate, and 1909, the year of the first Triangular Debate of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the rhetoric, symbolism, and metaphors used in athletics were used to frame these early debates.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

According to political scientist William Harpine in his study of the rhetoric of the 1896 campaign, " Bryan's speech cast a net for the true believers, but only for the true believers.

( The slogan " Fifty-four Forty or Fight !” is often incorrectly regarded as being part of this president's election campaign rhetoric ; it became a popular slogan in the months after the election, used by those proposing the most extreme solution to the Oregon boundary dispute ).

His insurgent campaign used his soaring rhetoric to mobilize grass-roots right wing opinion against what he saw as the bland Washington establishment ( personified by Dole ) which he believed had controlled the party for years.

Examples of populist rhetoric on the other side of the political spectrum is the anti-corporate greed views of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the theme of " Two Americas " in the 2004 Presidential Democratic Party campaign of John Edwards.

He made news with his defense of Al Smith during his electoral campaign, when anti-Catholic rhetoric was used, saying " I ... express my disgust at the ignorance and superstition now rampant and in order that I may go on record as another of those who, though not Roman Catholics, are nevertheless Americans and are outraged by this recrudescence of blatant bigotry, operating through the most cowardly and contemptible methods.

In office, Papandreou backtracked from much of his campaign rhetoric and followed a more conventional approach.

Rhett ’ s rhetoric which talked of revolution and war was still too radical in the summer of 1828, but with the election of Jackson assured, James Hamilton Jr. on October 28 in Walterborough “ launched the formal nullification campaign ”.

Codreanu felt he had to amend the purpose of the movement after more than two years of stagnation: he and the leadership of the movement started touring rural regions, addressing the churchgoing illiterate population with the rhetoric of sermons, dressing up in long white mantles and instigating Christian prejudice against Judaism ( this intense campaign was also prompted by the fact that the Legion was immediately sidelined by Cuza's League in the traditional Moldavian and Bukovinan centers ).

Sir Oswald used racist rhetoric during the campaign, which was run largely on anti-immigration issues.

Despite a polished marketing campaign that saw Drašković change his personal appearance and tone down his fiery rhetoric, he ended up with only 4. 5 % of the total vote, well behind Vojislav Koštunica ( 31. 2 %) and Miroljub Labus ( 27. 7 %), both of whom moved on to the second-round runoff.

" In the campaign rhetoric, Kirk denounced Eckerd for having previously contributed to Democratic candidates, for allegedly running down a Cuban fisherman in a yacht race, and for spending lavishly from his personal fortune in the 1970 primary campaign. Though he defeated Eckerd, Kirk was then unseated, 57-43 percent, by the Democrat Reubin Askew, a state senator from Pensacola.

* 2009: St. Petersburg Times Staff, " for “ PolitiFact ,” its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.

Alexander Herzen disliked Nechayev's fanaticism and strongly opposed the campaign, believing Nechayev was influencing Bakunin toward more extreme rhetoric.

In addition, the government exempted the MMA from standard campaign conduct, for their use of loudspeakers, street rallies, and anti-government inflammatory rhetoric was not interfered with.

The result of this schism was a campaign headed by a coalition of Scottish MPs from both the Labour, the Liberal and the Conservative parties in which the " rhetoric of nationalism " was used to secure an amalgamation of Scottish and English railways.

PolitiFact. com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for " its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.

Nazi rhetoric has been studied extensively as, inter alia, a repetition campaign.

Upon the announcement of the campaign and the vote, most media outlets quickly took up the cause, brandishing stirring rhetoric and powerful images.

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.

While Bacevich supported Obama during the 2008 presidential race in which Obama repeatedly said he believed in the Afghanistan War, Bacevich has become increasingly critical of Obama's decision to commit additional troops to that war: " I interpreted his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan as an effort to insulate him from the charge of being a national security wimp.

The party ran a campaign during the Greek national elections of 2012 based on concerns for unemployment, austerity and the economy, as well as virulent anti-immigration rhetoric, which gained a large increase in support from the Greek electorate.

Critics claim the events can be best viewed as a PR campaign for G8 leaders and multinational corporations, due to the disparity between the rhetoric of the events and the actual efforts made after the events in reducing poverty.