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  • Write Essays By Using Rhetorical Tools: Climax
    By: marciano guerrero | - In Book IV of Cicero's Ad Herennium we find a discussion of a rhetorical figure -climax- that highlights a series of words that increment a particular situation, as in the following example:


    "I did not conceive this without counseling it; I did not counsel it without at once undertaking it; I did not undertake it without completing it; nor did I complete it without winning approval of it."
    The Dutch Renaissance humanist Erasmus in his book on rhetoric On Copia, called ...
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