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Therefore there are necessarily
three kinds of rhetorical speeches, deliberative, forensic, and epideictic.
The deliberative kind is either hortatory or dissuasive; for both those who give
advice in private and those who speak in the assembly invariably either exhort
or dissuade. The forensic kind is either accusatory or defensive; for litigants
must necessarily either accuse or defend. The epideictic kind has for its
subject praise or blame.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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