This page is a hub with links to notes and references on contemporary rhetorical theory, criticism, composition and speechwriting.
Topics and Articles
On Invention
On Style
Antithesis
Chiasmus
Climax, Anadiplosis, and Gradatio
Metaphor
Metonymy
Style
Synecdoche
Irony
On Theories and Theorists
The Rhetorical Aristotle
Kenneth Burke Roadmap
The Rhetorical Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke's Definition of Humanity
Narrative Theory
Political Rhetoric and Debates
Presidential Rhetoric
On Writing
Writing Rhetorical Criticism
How to Find a Speech
Speechwriting
Sources
Critical Theory, Controversy, Publicity
Dialogism and the Rhetorical Bakhtin
Dramatism and the Rhetorical Kenneth Burke
Enthymeme
Ethos, Pathos, Voice, Personae
Feminist Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Genre Theory and Criticism
Ideological Rhetoric
Metaphor Theory and Criticism
Musical Rhetoric
Narrative Theory and Criticism
Rhetorical Situation
Virtual Worlds
Rhetorical Voice
Semiotics, Post-structuralism and Critical Rhetoric
Style in General and Levels of Style
Visual Rhetoric
Resources
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Edited by Thomas O. Sloane. Oxford University Press, 2006. (enter through your subscribing library).