The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory or praise-and-blame rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric, as outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric, to be used to praise or blame, during ceremonies.
The epideictic oratory, also called ceremonial oratory or praise-and-blame rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric, as outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric, to be used to praise or blame, during ceremonies.
== Origin and pronunciation == The term's root has to do with display or show (δεῖξις deixis). It is a literary or rhetorical term from the Greek ἐπιδεικτικός "for rhetorical effect". It is generally pronounced .
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