Rome
Medieval/Church
1000-1500-ish
Whately/Campbell
Women
100
The person who gets credit for the concept of stasis...
Who is Cicero?
100
He was a rhetorician and once a "thoroughly bad man"...
Who is Augustine?
100
These are the faculties developed by Bacon...
What is reason, imagination, passions, memory, understanding, and will?
100
Whately said the essence of rhetoric is...
What is argument...
100
This woman suggested that women should “cultivate gentle, agreeable, charitable speech”...
Who is Christine de Pizan?
200
Cicero's model of the perfect orator was...
Who is "a good man speaking well"?
200
This person argued that you can take the logic of Aristotle and prove God...
Who is Aquinas?
200
"I think therefore I am." This rhetorician's goal is mathematical certainty...
Who is Descartes?
200
In 1776, he writes the Philosophy of Rhetoric and for about 200 years it becomes the dominant text…
Who is George Campbell?
200
This woman proposed a conversation model of discourse...
Who is Mary Astell?
300
The progressively more difficult rhetorical exercises for education, each assuming that which precedes it is...
What is the progymnasmata?
300
These were the major medieval genres...
What is preaching, poetry, letter writing, and battle orations?
300
This rhetorician reorganized the canons. He put invention and arrangement with dialectic and style and delivery with rhetoric. We might attribute "mere rhetoric" to him today.
Who is Peter Ramus?
300
Richard Whately talked about two kinds of arguments...
What is a priori arguments (arguments from cause to effect) and non a priori arguments (argument from sign, argument from example, argument from analogy)?
300
She was the most powerful woman of the early Roman empire...
Who is Livia?
400
The decision of whether or not it should be called justifiable homicide or mass murder would be called the stasis of...
What is a question of definition?
400
Letter writing consists of the following parts...
What is salutation, the securing of good will, the narration, the petition, and the conclusion?
400
This rhetorician argued that rhetoric’s base in probability is what makes it useful...
Who is Vico?
400
These were the two goals of rhetoric for Campbell...
1) to create belief (understanding), 2) to lead to action (will) -- these are the ends…belief and action
400
Two part-er... This kind of work outlined how women should act and speak... Two that we learned about were...
What is the conduct book? What is A Serious Proposal to the Ladies? and The Potential Woman?
500
The canons of Roman rhetoric were...
What is invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory?
500
This kind of speaking was the most popular during the Second Sophistic...
What is ceremonial speaking?
500
These are the steps of the Cartesian Method...
What is 1) doubt everything you know. Never accept anything as true that is not clearly and distinctly so, 2) reduce all problems to their simplest components, 3) conduct all inferences geometrically by rigorous deduction, moving from the simple to the complex, 4) review and recapitulate (rinse and repeat).
500
These are Campbell's four famous doctrines...
What is 1) the doctrine of sincerity, 2) the doctrine of the passions, 3) the doctrine of proof, and 4) the doctrine of vivacity?
500
She stated, women “say ‘Yes,’ and ‘No,’ and keep up a gentle jingle of the small bells of assent and applause, hoping to gain by pleasing what they are not allowed honorably to claim; their hearts meanwhile, hungering for the mental food of excellent, ennobling speech.”
Who is Jennie Willing?
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