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When these topics have been determined, we will endeavor to say what
we can in general about enthymemes and examples, in order that, when we have
added what remains, we may carry out what we proposed at the outset. Now, of the
commonplaces amplification is most appropriate to epideictic rhetoric, as has
been stated;1 the past to forensic, since things past are the subject
of judgement; and the possible and future to deliberative.
1 1.9.40. Amplication is to be understood of the exaggeration of both great and small things. It is most suited to epideictic oratory, in which there is no doubt as to the facts; so that it is only necessary to accentuate their importance or non-importance.
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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