Attic Style Writing

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Attic style writing.

Unlike the more austere formal and traditional attic style asiatic oratory was more bombastic emotional and coloured with wordplay. The oxford dictionary of literary terms author s. I think two of the biggest struggles for every writer are finding a their writing style and b their writing process. Historians of english prose style especially in the 17th and 18th centuries have distinguished between the vogue of the ciceronian style named after the characteristic practice of the roman writer cicero which is elaborately constructed highly periodic and typically builds to a climax and the opposing vogue of the clipped concise.

It is the quality whereby speech and thought wisdom and performance art and morality assertion and deference and many other elements of action intersect. But there are treasures to be found nevertheless. Hegesias developed and exaggerated stylistic effects harking back to the sophists and the gorgianic style. The concept underwrites cicero s alignment of the plain middle and elevated oratorical styles with the three main functions of informing pleasing and motivating an.

Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style. Attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style. Hegesias of magnesia was asianism s first main representative and was considered its founder. Andrews writing styles in flowers in the attic virginia c.

Kerri turner joins me in the attic. I hold a deep affection for words and their power. Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain. Asiatic attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.

Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain. Athenian orators of the. The style of oratory or prose writing associated with the speeches of the great attic i e. A bit worn yes.

Attic style atticism source. It involves a lot of trial and error writing hundreds of thousands of words and studying writers we admire. Examples and observations decorum is not simply found everywhere. There s this feeling in the room when the writing gets to this rare level.

So i write many of them in the hopes that one day they change others as they have changed me.