Adhortatio
ad-hor-ta'-ti-o L. "an exhortation"
A comandment, promise, or exhortation intended to move one's consent or desires. (I promise to marry you if we sleep together/I promise I will respect you in the morning)
Related Figures
euche
eustathia
Acknowledgement
The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.
