Cannons of Rhetoric
What are the five cannons of rhetoric?
Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, Pronuntiatio/Actio
What are the six characteristics of effective speech delivery?
Good eye contact, effective hand gestures, good body movements, structured posture, strong facial expression, effective vocal delivery
What is the definition of syntax?
the way words and phrases are arranged to create well-formed sentences, and also the way sentences are arranged to create well-formed paragraphs.
Which cannon of rhetoric is about organizing your arguments?
Dispositio
What are the four aims of rhetoric?
To persuade, to inform, to express, to entertain
What are the three persuasive appeals?
ethos, pathos, logos
Who first brought together and organized the five cannons of rhetoric?
Cicero
What are the three kinds of persuasive discourse?
deliberative, forensic, epideictic
What is the topoi?
a set of categories that are designed to help a writer or speaker find relationships among ideas, which in turn helps organize his/her thoughts into a solid argument