Ch. 1
The opposite, or counterpart, of dialectic
What is rhetoric?
You trust your grandpa to give you advice on investing in retirement funds because he has this aspect of ethos.
What is practical wisdom? (good sense)
These are essential to the human experience.
What are emotions?
These have the potential to be dangerous
What are emotions?
How does Antony use imagery to invoke emotion in his speech?
What is "displaying the dead body of Caesar and his wounds?"
Aristotle's definition of rhetoric
What is "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion"?
You don't trust a foreign leader to support American enterprise because he is missing this aspect of ethos.
What is goodwill?
If your mom agrees to get you Chick-Fil-A after school because she is in a good mood, what is this is an example of?
What are emotions affecting decisions?
When Antony repeatedly calls Brutus an honorable man while subtly questioning Brutus' words, what is Antony attacking?
What is Brutus' ethos?
Which emotion does Aristotle say is a “good feeling felt by good persons,” as compared to envy, which “is a bad feeling felt by bad persons”? Or, to put it another way: “I see that an equal is better than me, so I am inspired to be better.”
Discussion that aims to bring both parties to the truth of things
What is dialectic?
You don't trust a person convicted of grand theft to housesit for you because they lack this aspect of ethos.
What is moral virtue?
Which emotion does Aristotle define as the opposite of fear?
What is confidence?
Aristotle's definition of emotion
What is...
"all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure?"
Which emotion does Aristotle define as pain “in regard to bad things . . . which seem likely to involve us in discredit”?
What is shame?
People who influence a crowd with flattery and manipulation and who divorce emotion from logic
Who are sophists?
Antony claims that Caesar brought captives home to Rome and filled the general coffers. What aspect of Julius' ethos is Antony highlighting?
What is practical wisdom?
Toyota comparing their vehicles to the companionship of golden retrievers is an example of using ______ to invoke emotion.
What is imagery or metaphor?
Antony recalling the first time Julius wore his mantle is an example of using ______ to invoke emotion?
What is narrative?
Which emotion does Aristotle define as pain at unmerited good fortune of others?
What is indignation?
The four reasons why rhetoric is useful
1. To assist the truth
2. To persuade when logos alone isn't enough
3. To see both sides of an arguement
4. To defend one's beliefs
What is practical wisdom? (good sense)
What emotion does Aristotle define as “pain or disturbance due to a mental picture of some destructive or painful evil in the future”?
What is fear?
Which emotion does Aristotle define as “an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight directed without justification towards what concerns oneself or towards what concerns one’s friends”?
What is anger?
Properly applied, an emotional appeal should move an audience toward the truth of a given experience. The emotion ought to be ______ to the ________.
What is "suited to the occasion?"