elocution in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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elocution lesson
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Although today we associate the word "elocution" more with eloquent speaking, for the classical rhetorician it connoted style.
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Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound.
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Activities like elocution, debate, quiz, declamation, dance, music, sports and games are held and points are awarded.
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She spent her remaining days teaching music and elocution.
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Elocution emerged as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century.
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The school offered classes on elocution, grammar, business, art and music.
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She found particular gifts in a class on elocution, and joined the first suffrage club with six of her classmates.
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He began to appear on the stage in 1939, as a member of an amateur elocution group.
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Today, we associate elocution and rhetoric with the last of these styles, but for rhetoricians, each style was useful in rhetoric.
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With the publication of these works and similar ones, elocution gained wider public interest.
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