Aristotle, and W. Rhys Roberts. Rhetoric. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2004. Kindle Electronic Edition.
Book III, chapter 19.
In this last chapter of Aristotle’s Rhetoric he addresses the epilogue of a speech. “The Epilogue has four parts. You must (1) make the audience well-disposed towards yourself and ill-disposed towards your opponent, (2) magnify or minimize the leading facts, (3) excite the required state of emotion in your hearers, and (4) refresh their memories” (Aristotle III.19, B. 1419b). These activities should be kept in order as each one flows from the last. In the final stage, Aristotle says repetition is called for, while it was not appropriate in the earlier stage of introduction or development (Aristotle III.19, B. 1420a). Finally, Aristotle says the conclusion is a place for “the disconnected style of language” (Aristotle III.19, B. 1420b) - use of short and forceful sentences which demand a response.