Modifies a noun

• rhetoric: The theater is the place where epideictic rhetoric belongs.

• genre: From a rhetorical point of view these two phenomena point to the epideictic genre 9.

• oratory: I have become increasingly skeptical of the value of that survival of epideictic oratory called " the formal lecture " .

• element: Finally, with the description of her " heavenly lineaments " Spenser combines the epideictic elements of praise of lineage and physical features.