Write Essays By Using Rhetorical Tools: Gradatio - In Book IV of Cicero's Ad Herennium we find a discussion of a rhetorical figure -climax or gradatio- that highlights a series of words that increment in ascending or descending order a particular situation. A writer may use this figure --to great advantage-- in fiction and essays. |
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In Book IV of Cicero's Ad Herennium we find a discussion of a rhetorical figure -climax or gradatio- that highlights a series of words that increment in ascending or descending order a particular situation. A writer may use this figure --to great advantage-- in fiction and essays.
Author: marciano guerrero
Date: Dec 7, 2009 - 7:08:34 AM
In Book IV of Cicero's Ad Herennium we find a discussion of a rhetorical figure -gradatio- that highlights a series of words that increment a particular situation, as in the following example:
"The empire of Greece belonged to the Athenians; the Athenians were overpowered by the Spartans; the Spartans were overcome by the Thebans; the Thebans were conquered by the Macedonians; and the Macedonians in a short time subdued Asia in war and joined her to the empire."
"For a moment my whole world came crashing down on me: out of the debris came pain, of the pain came hurt, of the hurt came paralysis, of the paralysis came numbness, of the numbness came total eclipse of the soul. "This is the end," I mumbled. But my wails must have touched the hard man's heart that he picked me up and held me and whispered in my ear that there was nothing in the world that could hurt me; that no evil force in this world could ever take me away from him."
"The point is that wealth comes to those who lust for it. From assertiveness comes confidence, from confidence we develop poise, from poise we move to aggressiveness, and with aggressiveness we are one step close to lust for riches-to having it all."
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