The Rhetorician’s Toolkit

Every speech that moved a crowd, every line that lodged in your head, every argument that felt unanswerable was built from the same small set of tools. Rhetoricians named them two thousand years ago, and the names stuck: alliteration and anaphora, chiasmus and zeugma, litotes, merism, aposiopesis. This course gives you the full working vocabulary of language about language, from the sound-patterns of poetry to the sentence architecture of great oratory, the tricks of meaning behind metaphor and irony, and the linguist’s terms for how words are born, borrowed and bent. Learn to see the machinery inside the prose you admire, then use it yourself. Around 150 terms, each with a definition, pronunciation and a real example.

Level: Genius

Words: 147