THE VIRTUES OF STYLE

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CLARITY<br />

The rhetor speaks or writes in a way that the audience understands.<br />

Clarity involves the use of direct, vivid, precise, and familiar<br />

language that avoids clumsy sentence structure and unnecessary<br />

padding and abstraction.

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CLARITY The rhetor speaks or writes in a way that the audience understands. Clarity involves the use of direct, vivid, precise, and familiar language that avoids clumsy sentence structure and unnecessary padding and abstraction.

CLARITY A rhetorical artifact can be It may or may not require what is called “plain style.” both ornate and clear; it can also be both plain and unclear, and both grammatically correct and unclear.

Page 1: THE VIRTUES OF STYLE Clarity, Corre
Page 5 and 6: APPROPRIATENESS The rhetor uses cl
Page 7 and 8: DISTINCTION A rhetor uses language
Page 9 and 10: FIGURES OF SPEECH Manipulations of
Page 11 and 12: TROPES Metaphor Simile Allegory
Page 13 and 14: SCHEMES OF ACCUMULATION Climax (re
Page 15 and 16: FIGURES OF THOUGHT Apostrophe (int

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