Figures of summary

Providing a summary or overview is a regular rhetorical strategy. Summarizing is also a rhetorical convention within an oration, and in a legal argument you normally include a summary in your closing speech, so these techniques are particularly useful there. The figures of summary include:

• accumulatio
• anacephalaeosis
• complexio
• epanodos
• epiphonema
• symperasma
• synathroesmus

You can find further information on each technique by clicking on the links.