Defining Rhetoric
Quintillian's definition of Rhetoric
what is, "a good man speaking well?"
The five canons of rhetoric
What are:
invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory
Mr. V's favorite pro sports team and his children's names
Who is the Green Bay Packers and Evie, Piper, Hudson, and Rowan?
The three appeals (in Gk)
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
The number of "common" topics and the translation of "topos"
What are five and "places?"
Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric
What is "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion?"
The parts of the Partito
What are the Thesis and Roadmap?
The oldest 11th grader
Who is Caleb Byce?
The three things that aspire confidence in the speaker. (in Gk)
What are phronesis, arete', and eunoia?
Etymology
What is a subtopic of definition?
The lost art that Quintilian thought needed to be recovered and added to the study of rhetoric.
What is moral philosophy?
The two parts of invention and their particulars
What are the Appeals (ethos, pathos, & logos) and the 5 Topics (Definition, Comparison, Relationship, Circumstance, & Testimony)?
The two staring men on posters in the back of Mr. V's class
Who are Urlich Zwingli & Thomas Cranmer?
The two things we use to argue in our confirmatio
What are enthymemes and examples?
Past fact/Future Fact
What is a subtopic of Circumstance?
The ancient allegory that helps provide a picture and story to better understand the ascent to Philosophy and Rhetoric's aim.
What is Plato's Cave?
The four points that can be argued according to Early Stasis Theory.
What are:
1) Fact: Did it happen?
2) Harm: Is it harmful or advantageous?
3) Degree/Importance: Is it significant or insignificant?
4) Justice: Is it just or unjust?
The youngest 11th grader
Who is Isaiah Johnston?
Aristotle's definition of emotion.
What is "all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements that are attended by pain or pleasure?"
Law
What is a subtopic of Testimony?
Plato's definition of Rhetoric in his dialogue, "Gorgias"
What is, "noblest of arts dealing with words concerning the greatest of human affairs dealing with matters of justice and injustice producing true belief in accordance with knowledge?"
The six parts or organization and their corresponding appeals
What are the introduction (Exordium, Narratio, & Partitito) which focuses on Ethos, the body (Confirmation & Refutation) which focuses on Logos, and the conclusion (Peroratio) which focuses on Pathos?
The amount of books that Aristotle published
What is a trick question with the answer of... none?
He wrote 200 works, but none of them were published by Aristotle, many students later took his lecture notes or writings and copied them for distribution.
The play that helped illustrate Pathos so well in our Rhetoric Alive! book
What is Julius Caesar?
Degree
What is a subtopic of Comparison?