Defining Rhetoric
True / False: According to Aristotle, rhetoric is art.
What is True?
The first consideration of a speech maker, according to Aristotle.
What is the audience?
What is political oratory?
Repetition consecutively, but sometimes with a brief interruption
What is Epizeuxis?
Logos is...
An appeal to logic and reasoning.
It is persuading an audience with reason, using facts and figures
The term associated with repeated phrases.
Epimone
The three divisions of speechmaking.
What is political, Forensic, and Ceremonial?
The three things that inspire confidence in an orator's character.
What are good sense, good moral character, and goodwill?
Repeating the root of a word with a different ending.
What is Polyptoton?
T/F: Dolphins live longer if you give them positive affirmation.
What is true?
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" is an example of this.
What is epizieuxis?
Modes of persuasion
What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos?
Anger can be cured by this, but hatred cannot.
Repetition at the start of successive clauses
What is Anaphora?
What is:
Introduction
Narration
Division
Proof
Refutation
Conclusion
Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric.
The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
The aim of political speakers.
What is utility?
This is the opposite of fear.
Use of the same language at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of the next
What is Anadiplosis?
Breaking off a sentence or leaving it unfinished
What is Aposiopesis?
The three elements of speechmaking.
What is speaker, subject, and person addressed?
Considered the most noble form of oratory by Aristotle.
What is political oratory?
If you have no witnesses, you should argue from what is __________, according to Aristotle.
What is probable?
When words appear in unexpected or unnatural word order
What is Anastrophe?
The feast of the Annunciation in 2024.
What is today?