Composition and Writing
A universal art of persuasion, both spoken and written.
What is rhetoric?
This guy was a therapist who emphasized compromise over being right. (He wanted us to find a common ground in arguments).
Who is Carl Rogers?
Reasoning with a flaw that often goes unnoticed.
What is a logical fallacy?
The three main rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
The shape rhetorical appeals usually come in.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
An argument that starts with neutrally stating the fact and giving the opposing view.
What is a Rogerian argument?
This guy HATED the Sophists for so many reasons.
Who is Isocrates?
Reasoning made public to influence an audience.
What is an argument?
The opportune moment or timing of rhetoric.
What is Kairos?
The time and date of the final exam
When is Monday, April 29th from 8-10 AM?
A "place" to begin your argument, that can be special or common or utilize the Heuristic method.
What are Topoi? (or topics?
This guy emphasized appeals as a form of argument.
Who is Aristotle?
"Top down" reasoning, that starts from a general truth and infers a particular circumstance.
What is deductive reasoning?
Classical rhetors needed lots of training, memorization, practice, and natural ability for this.
What is giving a rhetorical speech?
Augustine said these three things were important for orators.
What is teaching, persuading, delighting?
The three classical styles of rhetoric.
What are epideictic, judicial, and deliberative?
This guy said teaching is more important than style in oratory.
Who is Augustine?
Two premises that lead to a conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
It consists of an issue, an audience, and a set of constraints.
What is a rhetorical situation?
The movie we watched a clip from earlier this semester.
What is Ice Age?
Fact, definition, quality, place
What are the four main points of stasis?
This guy came up with a model that separated an argument into its constituent parts to include claim, grounds, warrant, backing, qualifier, rebuttal.
Who is Stephen Toulmin?
A premise and a conclusion, with an invisible middle premise.
What is an enthymeme?
The first of the five Canons of Rhetoric.
What is Invention?
The study of the art of rhetoric (what we've been doing all semester).
What is rhetorical theory?