NOUN | communication | epideictic oratory | a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people |
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Meaning | A type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people. | |
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Example | "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory" | |
Broader | oratory | addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) |
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