Defining Rhetoric
Speech Making
The Speaker
Rhetorical Devices
Misc.
100

True / False: According to Aristotle, rhetoric is art. 

What is True? 

100

The first consideration of a speech maker, according to Aristotle. 

What is the audience? 

100
In this area of rhetoric, the character of the speaker is particularly important

What is political oratory? 

100

Repetition consecutively, but sometimes with a brief interruption

What is Epizeuxis? 

100

Logos is...

An appeal to logic and reasoning.

It is persuading an audience with reason, using facts and figures

200

The term associated with repeated phrases. 

Epimone

200

The three divisions of speechmaking.

What is political, Forensic, and Ceremonial? 

200

The three things that inspire confidence in an orator's character.

What are good sense, good moral character, and goodwill? 

200

Repeating the root of a word with a different ending. 

What is Polyptoton? 

200

T/F: Dolphins live longer if you give them positive affirmation. 

What is true? 

300

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" is an example of this. 

What is epizieuxis? 

300

Modes of persuasion

What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos? 

300

Anger can be cured by this, but hatred cannot. 

What is time? 
300

Repetition at the start of successive clauses

What is Anaphora? 

300
The 6-part Ciceronian Technique

What is: 

Introduction

Narration 

Division 

Proof 

Refutation

Conclusion

400

Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric. 

The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. 

400

The aim of political speakers. 

What is utility? 

400

This is the opposite of fear. 

What is confidence? 
400

Use of the same language at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of the next

What is Anadiplosis?

400

Breaking off a sentence or leaving it unfinished

What is Aposiopesis? 

500

The three elements of speechmaking. 

What is speaker, subject, and person addressed? 

500

Considered the most noble form of oratory by Aristotle.

What is political oratory?

500

If you have no witnesses, you should argue from what is __________, according to Aristotle. 

What is probable? 

500

When words appear in unexpected or unnatural word order

What is Anastrophe? 

500

The feast of the Annunciation in 2024. 

What is today? 

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