ComS 167 Systems and Theories of Rhetoric
Some Useful On-Line Resources

Topics:
Dictionaries and Glossaries
Major Rhetorical Theorists



Dictionaries and Glossaries
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples * by Richard Lanham
This easy to navigate glossary also includes and incredibly thorough and useful
research page. To access it, simply click on "Look it up!" at the top of the home page.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

The Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae
This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide
to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest
(the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming
figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Rhetoric Resources at Georgia Tech
A stated purpose of this page is "to provide a site on the Web where people from around the
country and around the world can come for a quick synopsis of topics related to the study of
rhetoric. The purpose of the RRT site is not to provide an exhaustive or authoritative treatments
of rhetorical topics, but to offer an annotated and hypertextual introduction to the essential
ideas and key figures within one of the most important and dynamic disciplinary traditions
in the Western academy."
Click on "Narrative Essay" at the bottom of the page to get to Joseph Petraglia-Bahri's essay,
which is an historical overview of rhetorical theory and which also points you to specific terms or
topics you may want to study.
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/



Major Rhetorical Theorists
The I. A. Richards Web Resource  This site is maintained by John Constable, College Lecturer
in English, Magdalene College,Cambridge, England.  The site is relatively new, and under development,
but it provides a nice introduction to the person of I. A. Richards and his work.
http://www.btinternet.com/~j1837c/jbc/richards/iar.html

Kenneth Burke Links
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/burke.html