Canons
The Common Topics
Rome--Six part speech
Style
Literary Devices
100
Placement of ideas for effect
What is Arrangement?
100
a statement of the exact meaning of a word
What is Definition?
100
the web that draws listeners into the speech
What is exordium?
100
(subject) (verb), but (subject) (verb)
What does a compound sentence contain?
100
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
What is Rhetoric?
200
the choices that writers or readers make in language use for effect
What is style?
200
disagreement between two or more groups
What is Division?
200
background material on the case
What is narration?
200
Although or Eventhough
What words do complex sentences start with?
200
Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery
What are canons?
300
the presentation and format of a presentation
What is Delivery?
300
what is similar or different
What are comparison and contrast?
300
divide the case and make clear which parts the speaker would address
What is partition?
300
details at the end
What would loose be in a sentence?
300
Repetition of words at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is an alliteration?
400
tap into your reader's memories and cultural associations
What is Memory?
400
a fact or condition connection with or relevant to an event or action
What are circumstances?
400
reasons, details, examples
What is confirmation?
400
details at the end
What would periodic be in a sentence?
400
repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two adjacent words
What is Assonance?
500
creating something new, by asking important questions: who, what, when, where
What is Invention?
500
a formal written or spoken statement
What is a testimony?
500
Refutation is when you consider possible objections. Peroration is when you draw together the entire argument.
What is refutation? What is peroration?
500
The red, watery and juicy watermelon was eaten by Sarah.
Give an example of a periodic sentence.
500
repletion of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses
What is epistrophe?
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