| The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display. |
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| That is, the songs' rhetorical strategies paralleled those of epideictic speeches. |
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| In addition, the major technique of ancient epideictic oratory, auxesis, is wonderfully compatible with Aristophanic comedy. |
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| He argues that epideictic rhetoric with its traditional concern with the noble provides the model from which a contemporary reasoning about ends could proceed. |
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| Nonetheless, epideictic rhetoric may have political implications. |
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| In other words, the usual epideictic speech inculcates values, while these political songs employed values as topoi for a purpose more typical of deliberative speech. |
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| 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. |
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| A somewhat lengthy disquisition on epideictic rhetoric is notably broken up by a discussion of the figural strategies of auxesis and epistrophe in the cartoon's obscene song. |
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| Overall, epideictic rhetoric may address policy or value issues, can issue blame as well as praise, and bears a close conceptual relationship with song. |
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| But from chapter I.3 on, he makes us think that 'specific' refers to the different species of rhetoric, so that some topoi are specific to deliberative, other to epideictic, and still others to juridical speech. |
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