A pronoun that refers to an unspecified person or thing.

Verbals--which include participles, gerunds, and infinitives--are the forms of a verb that function as other parts of speech.

The purpose of this figure of speech is not to secure a response but to assert or deny a point implicitly. A rhetorical question may serve as a subtle way of insinuating an idea that might be challenged by an audience if asserted directly.

Any small group of words within a sentence or a clause.

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To encourage further speculation (rather than reduce this complex trope to simplistic explanations), we've gathered a variety of definitions and interpretations of irony, both ancient and modern. We begin on this page with some broad observations abo

Modern theories of oral and written communication remain heavily influenced by the basic rhetorical principles introduced in ancient Greece by Isocrates and Aristotle, and in Rome by Cicero and Quintilian. Here, we'll briefly introduce these key figu

To encourage further speculation (rather than reduce this complex trope to simplistic explanations), we've gathered a variety of definitions and interpretations of irony, both ancient and modern. On pages three and four, we listen to a number of cont

To encourage further speculation (rather than reduce this complex trope to simplistic explanations), we've gathered a variety of definitions and interpretations of irony, both ancient and modern. On these pages, we listen to a number of contemporary

To encourage further speculation (rather than reduce this complex trope to simplistic explanations), we've gathered a variety of definitions and interpretations of irony, both ancient and modern. On this page, we offer a brief survey of the ways that