digitalghost - 7:08 pm on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

I love to listen to a good speech. Unfortunately, great orators are rare. Churchill is one of my favorites, in part due to his use of classical rhetoric. How many speakers can you remember using rhetoric well? Churchill used all of the classic techniques.

Anaphora
Antimetabole
Antithesis
Assonance and Alliteration
Brachylogia
Cacaphony
Catachresis
Epistrophe / Antistrophe
Epizeuxis
Litotes
Metonymy
Oxymoron
Paradox
Paronomasia
Periphrasis
Scesis Onomation

We're lucky to get speakers now that use alliteration, and I think they only use that as a mnemonic device. So have you brushed up on your rhetoric lately? Could come in handy for copywriting.