conciseness is the precise expression of a thought using the least amount of language possible. Ocular demonstration is similar to vivid description, though the emphasis is on the visual elements of the scene described. See also Rhetorical operations Five paragraph essay Cicero, De Inventione Rhetorica ad Alexandrum Notes References Rhetorica ad Herennium (Friedrich Marx, ed. Prolegomena in editio maior), Teubner, Leipzig, 1923. Golla, Georg. Sprachliche Beobachtungen zum auctor ad Herennium, Breslau, 1935. Kroll, Wilhelm. Die Entwicklung der lateinischen Sprache, Glotta 22 (1934). 24-27. Kroll, Wilhelm. Der Text des Cornificius, Philologus 89 (1934). 63-84 Tolkiehn, Johannes. Jahresbuch des philologischen Vereins zu Berlin 45 (1919) External links . Latin text with English translation by Harry Caplan. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1954. Liber rethoricorum Ms. Codex 1630 from Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. Latin manuscript written in protohumanistic script from northern Italy, possibly Venice, between 1440 and 1460. Commentaria ad Rhetoricam Ciceronis'' (UPenn MS Codex 1629) from Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania. Latin manuscript, [Italy], 1342. This discusses the work under the now disputed name of the author. Rhetoric Mnemonics Books about persuasion Works of unknown authorship