"Memory, the art of committing the speech to memory by various mnemonic devices, and delivery, an art akin to acting, were essential to rhetoric as a spoken art. As the importance of the written word increased...the importance of memory and delivery as rhetorical disciplines diminished."
Rhetoric: Discovery and Change (New York: Harcourt, 1970),
Rhetoric: Discovery and Change (New York: Harcourt, 1970),
Richard E. Young, Alton L. Becker, and Kenneth L. Pike.
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