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The term "procedural rhetoric" was developed by Ian Bogost in his book Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. [3] Bogost defines procedural rhetoric as "the art of persuasion through rule-based representations and interactions, rather than the spoken word, writing, images, or moving pictures" [4] and "the art of using processes persuasively."
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Although these figures have been in use in rhetoric throughout history, the Rhetorica ad Herennium was the first text to compile them and discuss the effects they have on an audience. Many of the following figures described in Book 4 are still used in modern rhetoric , though they were originally intended specifically for use in oral debate.
Progymnasmata (Greek προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises"; Latin praeexercitamina) are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire.
With historical origins in logic, dialectic, and rhetoric, argumentation theory includes the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion. It studies rules of inference, logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real-world settings. [1] [2]
Epideictic rhetoric in Galileo's "Dialogo" (1983) (ed.) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1984) Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth: language change in the 17th and 18th centuries (1985) Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: the Mackenzie-Evelyn debate (1986) English Science, Bacon to Newton (1987) In Defence of ...
Captatio benevolentiae (Latin for "winning of goodwill") is a rhetorical technique aimed to capture the goodwill of the audience at the beginning of a speech or appeal. It was practiced by Roman orators, with Cicero considering it one of the pillars of oratory.