The five canons of classical rhetoric – invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery – can be very helpful when writing a speech.
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The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while disrupting Trump’s public spotlight.
This 18th-century Tory preacher and Oxford don preached an incendiary political sermon in 1709 and became England’s first celebrity.
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