Authority Cited: Smith [John]
Author name and dates: John Smith (fl. 1660)
BKG Bio-tweet: Used by SJ in definition of rhetorical terms; Signed "From my Chamber in Montague Close, Southwark"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: nine cites of Smith's Rhetorick were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, no Smith's Rhetorick cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Smith's Rhetoric cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ of this title is unknown. The quotations appear to be taken from the one-sentence alphabetical definitions of terms at the beginning of the book, which serves as table of contents/index.]
Author name and dates: John Smith (fl. 1660)
BKG Bio-tweet: Used by SJ in definition of rhetorical terms; Signed "From my Chamber in Montague Close, Southwark"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: nine cites of Smith's Rhetorick were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, no Smith's Rhetorick cites were identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Smith's Rhetoric cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ of this title is unknown. The quotations appear to be taken from the one-sentence alphabetical definitions of terms at the beginning of the book, which serves as table of contents/index.]
- Smith’s Rhetorick The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd, wherein above 130 The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively definitions and variety of (Latin English Scriptural) examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the Sense of the Letter of the Scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day) Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the Elegancy in any Author they read, &c. / by John Smith, Gent., 1657, London, Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden at the Mayden head in Pauls-Church-yard; antanaclasis; antanomasia; anthypophora; apophasis; aporia; aposiopesis; apostrophe; auxesis; catachresis.