Definition of Peroration. Meaning of Peroration. Synonyms of Peroration

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Definition of Peroration

Peroration
Peroration Per`o*ra"tion, n. [L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration.] (Rhet.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. --Burke.

Meaning of Peroration from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- than deny it, John had the scholar Jean Petit of the Sorbonne deliver a peroration justifying the murder as tyrannicide. Louis's murder sparked a bloody...
- 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...