| Nobody has delved into his lexical, stylistic, rhetor ical or literary methods. |
| On the other hand, epideictic rhetoric implies that tradition or social standing authorizes the rhetor to locate the object of praise in the criteria of excellence. |
| Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the greatest of all theologians, was a trained rhetor who had served his time at the imperial court. |
| Whereas Bitzer suggests that the rhetor discovers exigencies that already exist, Vatz argues that exigencies are created for audiences through the rhetor's work. |
| Roth the poet and the rhetor excel in artistic performance when they transcend the ordinary modes of their respective discourses to create extraordinary effects. |
| The rhetor could suggest a contradiction between these values and sexism and argue that sexism must be abandoned. |
