Kenneth BurkeThinkers

Agency is the tool, means, instrument, or method an agent used in an act. Agency is an objective or material entity.

Eloquence is obscured by others fattening upon its leanness.

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Form is an arousing of desire, including 'expectations' evoked by a conventional genre.

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Modern poetry is a form that has replaced the “big spell” with a lot of “little spells,” each work pulling us in a different direction and these directions tending to cancel off one another, as with the conflicting interests of a parliament.

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Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: The use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Social movement is an entity that inspires commitment.

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