21W.747 | Fall 2009 | Undergraduate

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Political Discourse

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Plato’s Gorgias Gorgias & Figures Figures of Style II

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Lecture presentation on Plato’s Gorgias, the trial of Socrates, Churchill, Joseph Goebbels and The Big Lie, isocolon, scesis onomaton, asyndeton, polysyndeton, euphemismos, anesis, hyperbole, metaphor, paradox, oxymoron, aposiopesis, and rhetorical questions.

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