The five canons of classical rhetoric – invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery – can be very helpful when writing a speech.
- Professor of English and University Orator, Birmingham City University
Bleach to defeat COVID-19 or fire to dispel plague, history is full of quack medicine.
Written 60 years after the bubonic plague swept London, Defoe’s account may have been a hoax, but it still rings true today.
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