Canons of Rhetoric
What are the five canons of Rhetoric?
Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, and Pronuntiatio / Actio.
What is anaphora?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses.
Why was the Topoi invented?
They are designed to help a writer or speaker find relationships among ideas.
What is the cannon that you focus on organization of the argument?
Dispositio
What is Epistrophe?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences or lines of poetry.
What does the word Topoi mean and who invented it?
Topoi means "to pics" " Place to find something" and Aristotle invented it.
What is the first cannon where you search and discover the argument and the third where you put your argument in a certain style or piece of writing?
1. Inventio
3. Elocutio
Why is anaphora effective?
it can add emphasis
Can give power to particular words
can create emotion( pathos)
can build idea
can create pace
can create rhythm or cadence
What are the 5 categories of topoi?
1. Defenition
2. Comparison
3. Relationship
4.Circumstances
5. Testimony