Renaissance
Renaissance thinkers viewed rhetoric as
What is means to obtain power within politics and religion?
Rhetoricians like Humes and Locke studied this concept within rhetoric
What is human understanding?
The most common medium for rhetoric in this time period
Public Address
Theorists from the modern period embrace this type of approach, whereas theorists of the post modern period embrace this other one
What are objectivity and subjectivity?
During this time period, Humanists included what in the art of letter writing
What are persuasive private and public communications?
This rhetorician believed that human language must make use of generalizations
Who was John Locke?
Common themes within the culture and themes of the 19th century
What are suffrage(feminism), abolitionism, abolition, anti-lynching?
This is seen as a maker and not just a transmitter of meaning.
What is language?
During the Renaissance, the literacy rate of this group of people increased, therefore, their influence in rhetoric did too
What is women?
Enlightenment rhetoric turned away from traditional concerns such as memory invention systems and towards what
What are style and good delivery?
This concept was used in order to access the public sphere and appeal to audiences
What is religion?
The link from modernism to postmodernism is very direct for this group of people as it involves these types of theories of rhetoric that are based on a postmodern view of the world.
What are women and feminist theories?
She is often considered the first feminist of North America and her views of rhetoric include the concept of silence used as a persuasive entity
Who was Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz?
This Italian humanist disliked Descartes because he thought Descartes was too involved in science and mathematics and was not concerned with culture enough
Who was Vico?
Wrote a piece called "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women" in which she draws extensively from religion to justify and explain that God does not discriminate against women, therefore, men shouldn't either.
Who was Sarah Grimké?
Wrote A Grammar of Motives, an influential book about rhetoric. In this books he presents the dramatist pentad which uses act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose to analyze rhetoric and human motives.
Who was Kenneth Burke?
This rhetorician disagreed with Aristotle and believed that Induction was superior than deduction. He is also the author of Novum Organum.
Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
The study of belle lettres that expanded to the study of literature, literary criticism and general writing
What was the Belletristic Movement?
An African American rhetorician who used his power to speak about abolition and the rights of his fellow African Americans. Invoked rhetoric through literary devices in his writing such as metaphors, personification, and using emotional appeals such as sympathy.
Poet who used discursive resources and often talks about finding one's own identity when they are part of various cultures at once. Also talks about one having different personalities for different settings.
Who was Gloria Anzaldúa?