Glossary
Five comprehensive references for understanding rhetoric — from the large-scale structures that organize arguments to the sentence-level figures that give prose its power to the phrase-level concepts that reveal how meaning is constructed to the rhythmic patterns that shape how prose sounds to the sermonic features that measure how preachy a text is.
325 Total Entries
Rhetorical Structures
Large-scale organizational patterns that shape how arguments, narratives, and ideas unfold across paragraphs and entire texts.
59 Structures · 13 Categories
Rhetorical Figures
Sentence-level devices — figures of speech, schemes, and tropes — that shape how individual phrases and clauses achieve their effect.
93 Figures · 13 Categories
Phrase Analysis
The linguistic concepts behind phrase-level analysis — construction grammar, pragmatics, discourse analysis, semantics, and rhetorical functions.
87 Terms · 5 Categories
Rhythm Analysis
The vocabulary of rhetorical rhythm — pause types, tempo, cadence, tone, and the devices that shape how prose sounds and how its rhythm carries meaning.
62 Terms · 5 Categories
Preach Analysis
The Sermonic-Preachy Index framework — structural features, lexical categories, scoring formulas, and interpretation bands that measure how preachy a text is.
24 Terms · 3 Categories
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