Guide Links

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

This online rhetoric 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).

RHETORIC

A fast-paced introduction to the study of rhetoric, from Aristotle to the present,
with an emphasis on argumentative strategies and on rhetorical and stylistic analyses of essays, stories, speeches, poems, advertisements, lawn ornaments, t-shirts, and other forms of discourse.

A Short Handbook on Rhetorical Analysis | by William P. Banks

"He who does not study rhetoric will be a victim of it"
found on a Greek wall from the 6th Century B.C.

Throughout the numerous texts and treatises dealing with rhetoric in the classical tradition, much space is dedicated to the theories of invention, what Aristotle would claim as the different methods for "finding all the available arguments" in a given situation. Likewise, current textbooks that seek to "rediscover" the classical rhetorical tradition …

Corax: The Crow's Nest

"Corax: The Crow's Nest" is the website of Thomas J. Kinney, graduate student in English at the University of Arizona. It is named after Corax, the ancient Greek rhetorician who is said to have invented the art of rhetoric and whose name means "the crow." For more information, see my overview of rhetoric.

Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English program, where I study rhetoric, composition, literary and cultural theory, and literature.