
At the core of presentations was the use of graceful style, clear concise grammar and usage, and over time the insertion of rational and emotional arguments.

The Renaissance humanists focused on the correlation of speech and political principles as a powerful tool to present and persuade others to particular concepts. Cicero, a rhetorician and prolific author, was well-regarded in Ancient Rome as an orator of excellent eloquence. Hermes, the Greek God, was a patron of eloquence. The concept of eloquence could date back to the Rhetoric of the ancient Greeks, Calliope (one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne) being the Muse of epic poetry and eloquence. Thus, eloquence is to speak fluently and understand and master language so as to employ a graceful style with persuasiveness, or gracefulness in interpretation and communication. The word eloquence itself derives from the Latin roots: ē (a shortened form of the preposition ex), meaning "out (of)", and loqui, a deponent verb meaning "to speak". in saying great things in a sublime style, but in a simple style for there is, properly speaking, no such thing as a sublime style, the sublimity lies only in the things and when they are not so, the language may be turgid, affected, metaphorical, but not affecting." Eloquence in antiquity "True eloquence," Oliver Goldsmith says, "Does not consist. George Cruikshank's illustration to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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