Rhetorical Devices
An exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
Which canon includes the step of creating an argument?
Inventio
Which type of discourse is: any type of situation in which we seek to persuade someone to do something or believe something?
Deliberative discourse
What is the rhetorical device that includes the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses, sentences, or lines of poetry.
Anaphora
Which canon includes the step of organization of an argument?
Dispositio
Which type of discourse is legal/judiciary
forensic
This rhetorical device is repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or lines of poetry.
Epistrophe
Which canon includes the step of speaking eloquently?
elocutio
which type of discourse is demonstrative or ceremonial?
epideictic discourse
This rhetorical device is used to emotionally connect with the audience.
Pathos
which canon includes memorizing and learning the speech/argument?
Memoria
This sentence is an example of which rhetorical device: "I mean it's not that much snow" (it snowed two feet of snow).
Understatement
Who brought together the five canons of rhetoric?
Cicero