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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Progymnasmata."”.
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… and a specific part of that curriculum, the progymnasmata, accomplish important aims of modern composition approaches, while at the same time providing answers to modern deficiencies in composition instruction, especially at the secondary level. The thesis compares the progymnasmata and their …
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Imitation: A classical art for modern composition
… taxonomy employs textual models, such as the progymnasmata, and the living model, the writing teacher, writing. To use imitation most successfully, the teacher should understand the rhetorical theory to which she subscribes. Imitation enhances the objective, the transactional and the epistemic …
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The Convergence of Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism in Luke 3-5
… classical rhetoric as found in Aelius Theon’s Progymnasmata. Chapters IV and V offers practical exegesis of twelve consecutive scenes within Luke’s Gospel to determine to what extent congruence of discourse analysis and rhetorical criticism may be possible. Finally, Chapter VI compares the …
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Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
… described in the rhetorical handbooks and progymnasmata—refutation and confirmation, rhetorical figures, synkrisis, narration, and paraphrase—help elucidate Luke's compositional techniques, characterization of Jesus, and the function of the parallels between Luke and Acts. Thus, this study …
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Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative.
Facilitating a fresh approach to the long-standing "problem" of Johannine ethics, this project utilizes rhetorical analysis to explore the ways of thinking and living that the Fourth Gospel narrative would likely have engendered. The study addresses the scarcity of explicit ethical material in John …