Invention
Metaphorical locations or mental locations for thought that you can visit to devise content for your argument
What are the "commonplaces"?
Telling a joke, a story, asking a question, providing a statistic or quote, or offering up a paradox are examples of
What are "attention grabbers" or "ways to grab an audience's attention"?
A type of gesture that underscores what is being said
What is emphatic?
Exaggeration used for emphasis
The repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is "assonance"?
What is "testimony"?
The statement of facts
What is the "narratio"?
The technique of saying all of one's prepositional phrases together, to allow the audience time to digest what was said
What is "chunking"?
The use of words that imitate natural sounds
What is "onomatopoeia"?
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases
What is "anaphora"?
A sub-topic of this category is "etymology"
What is "definition"?
Moving quickly to the point on which an argument hinges is known as
What is "stasis theory"?
What is "pitch"?
An implied comparison
What is "metaphor"?
Repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in words near each other
What is "alliteration"?
A sub-topic of this category is "similarity/analogy"
What is "comparison"?
The thesis statement
What is the "partitio"?
An open palm for generosity is an example of this type of symbolic gesture
What is a "suggestive" gesture?
The representation of an abstraction or inanimate object as if it were human
What is "personification"?
The omission of conjunctions
What is "asyndeton"?
A sub-topic of this category is "past fact/future fact"
What is "circumstance"?
Aristotle says that there are really only two things a rhetor needs to do in the confirmatio
What are "state your case" and "prove it"?
Sustaining eye contact with the audience is crucial to making a strong connection, which is almost the whole of persuasion. It is a critical part of a rhetor's ______.
What is "ethos"?
The asking of a question for the purpose of making a point rather than receiving an answer
What is "rhetorical question"?
The repetition of the same word or words at the ends of successive clauses
What is "epistrophe"?