Canons of Rhetoric
The analogy Augustine uses for the memory
what are fields and palaces?
The correct persuasive order of the rhetorical appeals
What is Ethos, Logos, Pathos?
The technique that uses near rhymes rather than exact rhymes, allowing more possibilities for rhythmic poetry.
What is Slant Rhyme?
The context of the situation that must be acknowledged by the rhetor.
What is Kairos?
Short stories with some kind of moral lesson?
What is a fable?
The segment of classical organization that contains the proofs of the argument
What is Confirmatio?
What is Eunoia?
The poetic form that has 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern, and originated in Japan.
What is Haiku?
Common opinion, what every argument should be based in/upon
What is Endoxa?
Giving human qualities to animals or objects.
What is Personification?
The common topic that seeks to find the relationship between two things
What is Relation?
What is Ethos?
A poem that contains five feet of any meter
The rhetorical virtues, what sophists avoid and true rhetors should seek (goodness, beauty, truth)
What are the Transcendentals?
stylistic technique concerned with the arrangement of words.
What is a Scheme?
Thought put into words
What is Style?
Short, wise sayings that the rhetoric may be too young to use
What is a Maxim?
The two parts of a Petrarchan sonnet
What is a Sestet and an Octave?
Conversations that seek "the heart of the matter".
What is Dialectic?
A tenet of stasis theory that asks the question "whether something happened".
What is Fact?
The first canon of rhetoric, concerned with creating ideas for use in an argument
What is Invention?
Shortened forms of syllogisms, leaving out one of the premises or conclusion. Example: “College graduates are struggling to find jobs, and Tyrese is a college graduate!”
What are Enthymemes?
The standard building blocks of poems, separated lines of text within a poem.
What are Stanzas?
The framework that bases all proofs in four different concepts: fact, harm, importance, and justice
What is Stasis Theory?
The type of rhetoric concerned with blaming or praising individuals, groups, or ideas.
What is Epideictic Rhetoric?