Glossary of Rhetoric Terms - N

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• Narratio. A presentation of essential facts in a judicial speech.
• Narration. Story telling, involving the elements of time, place, actor, action, cause and manner.
• Necessary Cause. Cause without which effect couldn't/wouldn't have occurred.
• Negatio. To negate or deny.
• Neoplatonism. School of thought emanating from the works of Plato and Aristotle in early BCE Rome.
• Noema. Speech that is deliberately subtle or obscure.
• Nomos. Greek, a social custom or convention.
• Non Sequitur. A statement bearing no relationship to the preceding context.
• Notaries. Secretaries trained in rhetoric for dealing with the agreements that were needed for commercial cities in Italy to function.