- of the
coming discourse will be
announced in advance". The
peroratio ("
peroration"), as the
final part of a speech, had two main
purposes in
classical rhetoric:...
- suddenly,
quite unexpectedly, our
terrible foe
collapsed before us. The
peroration, even at a
moment of
great apparent danger to
British national survival...
-
original text
related to this article: We
shall fight on the
beaches The
peroration is
widely held to be one of the
finest oratorical moments of the war and...
-
Commons on 18 June with one of his most
famous speeches,
ending with this
peroration: What
General Weygand called the "Battle of France" is over. I expect...
- of the speech, King
departed from his
prepared text for an
improvised peroration on the
theme "I have a dream". In the
church spirit,
Mahalia Jackson lent...
- The 1816
State of the
Union Address was the last
annual address given by
President James Madison, the
fourth president of the
United States. It was given...
-
reversed New Hampshire's
takeover of the college.
Webster concluded his
peroration with the
famous words: "It is, Sir, as I have said, a
small college. And...
-
stirred and finally, as we have said,
swept off its feet by a
tornado of
peroration yelled at the
defiant high
pitch of a
tremendous voice.
After his election...
- and
William Forster Abtrop wrote of the
Fifth Symphony, "The
furious peroration sounds like
nothing so much as a
horde of
demons struggling in a torrent...
- Enheduanna's "The
Exaltation of Inanna,"
includes an exordium, argument, and
peroration, as well as
elements of ethos, pathos, and logos, and
repetition and metonymy...
