Writing
What is the definition of syntax?
Anything along the lines of: The way a words and phrases are arranged to create sentences that make a more entertaining or meaningful essay/document/piece of writing.
In the definition of Rhetoric, it is the art of ___ and ___.
Writing, speaking
Winthrop wrote practiced their speech and quotes in order to commit it to memory. What cannon are they practicing?
Memoria
Which of these is a hyperbole?
1. The party was so chaotic, there were a people on the chandelier's .
2. The wind whipped Sarah's hair as she stood in the field.
Sentence number 1
Write an example of sentence type 11: use a colon if you want to create a list or definition
Criteria: includes a colon before the list. ex: "I went to the store to get: milk, eggs, flour, and a stick of butter"
Is this sentence pathos, ethos, or logos and why?
"If you allow the children to have too much sugar after dinner, then they will have a hard time sleeping."
Logos, due to the structure and the use of the "if...then"/"cause...effect"
Both people and dates for the writer and improver of the Cannon's of Rhetoric.
Cicero 50 BCE, Quintilian 95 CE
What is the definition of a hyperbole?
anything along the lines of this works: An exaggerated statement or claim
Is this a correct citation? if not, why?
In Homer's Iliad, Athena says this to Akhilleus, "Let him have a lashing/with words, instead"(Homer, I. 247-48).
No, because adding Homer a second time is redundant.
Construct a short example of a pathos argument.
Criteria for the argument:
- an attempt to sway the audience's emotions
What are all five cannons of Rhetoric?
inventio
dispositio
elocutio
memoria
actio/pronuntiatio
Construct your own example of a hyperbole.
Criteria: an exaggerated statement that