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Speaking generally, of the topics
common to all rhetorical arguments, amplification is most suitable for
epideictic speakers, whose subject is actions which are not disputed, so that
all that remains to be done is to attribute beauty and importance to them.
Examples are most suitable for deliberative speakers, for it is by examination
of the past that we divine and judge the future. Enthymemes are most suitable
for forensic speakers, because the past, by reason of its obscurity, above all
lends itself to the investigation of causes and to demonstrative proof.
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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