Speaker, subject, and person addressed and the hearer that the determines the speech's end and object.
What is the three elements of speech making?
100
To deliberately expresse an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact
What is understatement.
100
Intending to teach.
What is didactic?
200
political, forensic, and ceremonial
What are the three types of oratory?
200
A short, informal reference to a famous person or event
What is allusion?
200
(of speech or writing) expressing praise and commendation
What is laudatory?
300
To praise or censure somebody in a public forum.
What is ceremonial oratory?
300
The recurrence of initial consonant sounds. The repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words):
What is alliteration?
300
(of language) exaggerated.
What is hyperbolic?
400
To deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in a glance a complicated argument, or follow a long chain of reasoning.
What is Aristotle's duty of rhetoric?
400
Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants
What is assonance?
400
(especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality