John Quincy Adams

1767-1848 · American · Classical Rhetorical Theory, Deliberative Oratory, Parliamentary Argument

Eloquence is the child of liberty.

Topics John Quincy Adams addresses

• the five parts of rhetoric
• rhetorical invention
• the disposition of an oration
• elocution
• memory and delivery
• the three kinds of oratory
• deliberative oratory
• judicial oratory
• demonstrative oratory
• the parts of an oration
• the exordium
• narration and confirmation
• the refutation
• the peroration
• figures of speech
• metaphor and simile
• perspicuity in style
• the sublime in oratory
• imitation of the ancients
• Cicero as a model
• Demosthenes as a model
• Aristotle's Rhetoric
• the oratory of the bar
• the oratory of the pulpit

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