Commendatory verse is a genre of epideictic writing. Currently this is the best surviving example of epideictic oratory. Joel Fineman treats Sonnet 65 as epideictic. Examples of epideictic rhetoric would include a eulogy or a wedding toast. He divided the art of rhetoric into three genres&colon; deliberative, forensic, and epideictic. Still, the "Art of Rhetoric" is cited as an example of epideictic work (Lockwood, 1996). Literary and political analysts likewise have praised the speech's eloquent prose and epideictic quality. Epideictic pheromones are different from territory pheromones, when it comes to insects. The epideictic genre of rhetoric encompasses all rhetoric used for ceremonial and commemorative purposes. Epideictic rhetoric also calls for witnessing events, acknowledging temporality and contingency (140). They delivered their epideictic speeches first in numerous private assemblies, then in the Senate. Epideictic is "ceremonial" and involves the praise or, less often, the criticism, of the subject.