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representative anecdote: a standalone construct

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Rhetoric

a form of the subject matter chosen as a model that sums up and represents the whole it is used to describe.

In rhetoric, representative anecdote refers to a form of the subject matter chosen as a model that sums up and represents the whole it is used to describe. This meaning comes from Burke (1945) in A grammar of motives.[1]

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References

Burke, K. (1945). A grammar of motives. Prentice-Hall. Open Library record

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