The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory, or praise-and-blame rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or `species` (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined in Aristotle`s Rhetoric, to be used to praise or blame during ceremonies. == Origin and pronunciation == The term`s root has to do with display or show (deixis). It is a literary or r...
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done for show or display
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• (a.) Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
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Ep`i·deic'tic adjective [ Greek ..., from ... to show forth, display;
'epi` + ... to show. Confer
Epidictic .] Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; - - applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
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Ceremonial rhetoric, such as might be found in a funeral or victory speech.
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epideictical adjective designed primarily for rhetorical display; `epideictic orations`
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