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epideictic oratory

DEFINITIONS OF: epideictic oratory

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n a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people

“Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory”
Type of:
oratory
addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
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