| Perhaps most usefully, however, the book offers a repertoire of rhetorical suggestions, topoi for the specific topic of rhetoric. |
| The main part of the qaṣīdeh expresses extensive praise of the merits of the poet's patron by way of a conventional repertoire of topoi. |
| These three topoi can be varied in countless ways to create a riveting narrative. |
| Clearly, then, by the middle of the 1860s certain Chinese topoi had emerged in the poetry composed in Parnassian circles. |
| These songs appealed to common ground and shared values as topoi, but not as uplifting principles for emulation. |
| Scenarios, incidentally, that depend generally on language for their structure and arguably literature for their topoi. |
