In the sixteenth century the reader/singer was led through the miscellanies in a morally ascending line based on the classic rhetoricians' division of amorousness, merriment and wisdom.
Today, we associate elocution and rhetoric with the last of these styles, but for rhetoricians, each style was useful in rhetoric.
The term "pruvacharyar" ("lit", earlier grammarians or rhetoricians) has also been used.
The definition mentions identifications, which is intended to acknowledge a common practice of rhetoricians.
Invention is concerned with the content or idea being expressed, and relates to the rhetoricians understanding of his goals.
Anthologies comprising the history of rhetoric or rhetoricians often leave the impression there were none.
The humanistic rhetoricians frequently confused "loci communes" with simple "loci", or general basal concepts.
Philosophers and rhetoricians thought that metaphors were the primary figurative language used in rhetoric.
