Figures of time
Time and timeliness is a general concern of rhetoric:
Kairos involves the opportune occasion for speech, including timing, and the general circumstances surrounding a case are factors that any advocate should consider before preparing a speech. It includes considering who your audience is, and what would be appropriate under the circumstances.
In addition, many specific figures address time. In a legal context these figures will tend to be used in either the statement of facts, as a factor in what happened and/or in the closing speech.
Chronographia - this is the vivid depiction of a given time
Hysteron proteron - disorder of time
Peristasis involves an amplification including circumstantial details such as time
Prolepsis -this involves anticipating a future argument or event
Enallage -Of many possible grammatical substitutions, one may alter the tense of a given construction.
Ampliatio- this involves using the name of something or someone before it has obtained that name or after the reason for that name has ceased.
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.