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To learn more about the engraver of the 17th-century head-piece pictured to the left, see the IN BRIEF biography for Wenceslaus Hollar.

IN BRIEF topics on 2 rhetorical concepts related to occasio (or occasion): classical rhetoric’s concept of kairos (a Greek word “with no single or precise equivalent in any other language”) and the modern rhetorical situation.

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First Published:  December 2014
Revised (substantive):  30 June 2021


Opening quotation mark…it is no small part of policy to distinguish of Fortune and Occasion, it is easier to see the one, than to retain the other…Closing quotation mark

 N. H., The Ladies Dictionary (London, 1694, p. 232)

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