A suasoria is an exercise in rhetoric, a form of declamation in which a student delivers a speech as the soliloquy of a historical figure debating how to act at a critical moment, based on Roman rhetorical doctrine and practice. The Roman orator Quintilian noted that a suasoria might call for addressing an individual or a group such as the Senate, the citizens of Rome, the Greeks, or foreign peoples, and the exercise was meant to develop a student's imagination as well as logical and rhetorical skill. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimA rhetorical school exercise that became prevalent in ancient Rome as the final stage of a course in rhetoric, alongside the controversia. 1 Sources
1. Suasoria (Wikipedia)
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The exercise became prevalent in ancient Rome, where it was, with the controversia, the final stage of a course in rhetoric at an academy.
Suasoria (Wikipedia)
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