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How do I get better at rhetoric? My writing lacks an edge that I think rhetorical knowledge would fix.

>> No.18935110

Read Don Quixote

>> No.18935119

>>18935041
Cicero is an awful philosopher.

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>>18935041
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutio_Oratoria

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Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle

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>>18935041
I think this is pretty good. He goes through most of the main rhetorical devices and gives loads of examples, many from current usage, and you really see why they make stuff sound cool & forceful.

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>>18935119
he's just a bit spunky