Decorum Speech
Dulce et decorum est.
Decorum speech. Dignified propriety of behavior speech dress etc. Bent double like old beggars under sacks coughing like hags. Decorum the accommodating of the words to the audience is a central rhetorical concept requiring one s words and subject matter to be aptly fit to each other to the circumstances and occasion kairos the audience and the speaker.
A central rhetorical principle requiring one s words and subject matter be aptly fit to each other to the circumstances and occasion kairos the audience and the speaker. An observance or requirement of polite society. Examples of similes in dulce et decorum est are.
A simile is a figure of speech in which two dissimilar objects are compared and the comparison is made clear by the use of terms like like such as and so on.
