Silva Rhetoricae:The Forest of Rhetoric:

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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric, “provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance 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).If you’d like an overview of the entire “forest” (the subject) of rhetoric, consult the “trees” (major categories) in the left frame.If you’d like to look up specific terms of rhetoric, either scroll through the list of figures of speech (or “flowers” of rhetoric) on the right, or Search the Forest.Cross-references throughout the website will help you see the relationship between, for example, a topic of invention, such as “comparison” and its related figures of speech, “metaphor,” etc.”