Tropin', Schemin' and Dreamin'
"Did you go to the football game last night?"
"Oh yeah. Our team was a pack of wolves."
What is metaphor?
Figurin' out like where things go an stuff....
What is Arrangement?
This is another term for stylistic "appropriateness."
What is Decorum?
The rhetorical element employed when you want to hit the surf, but you're going to wait until the waves calm down a bit.
What is kairos?
The songlike combination of rhythm and melody in speech.
What is prosody?
The White House announced the new job growth data today.
What is synecdoche?
The Latin word for Invention
What is Inventio?
This is what rhetoric is counterpart to, according to Aristotle.
What is dialectic?
When you find a baby duck slathered in crude oil on the beach and use the duck for your latest advertising campaign.
What is pathos?
This style presents moderate figuration.
What is the middle style?
I'll take the maple bars. I'll take the crullers. I'll take the bear claws. I'll take 'em all.
What is anaphora?
Any mnemonic elements in communication
What is memory?
The book where Plato really hates on Sophists and Rhetoric.
What is the Gorgias?
I respond to this element of the pisteis by listening to a lifeguard who warns me of a riptide.
What is ethos?
According to Cicero, of the three styles of speech, this one aims to move the audience's feelings.
What is the Grand (or High) Style?
"If we were in a different situation, I might spend time talking about my opponent's freakish obsession with American Girl Dolls, but I'll leave that alone."
What is praeteritio?
The canonical term for presenting the information
What is Delivery?
The predominant species in 2 Samuel 22:
2“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield[a] and the horn[b] of my salvation.
He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior—
from violent people you save me.
4 “I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and have been saved from my enemies.
5 The waves of death swirled about me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
6 The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me.
What is epideictic or epideixis?
I've employed this member of the pisteis if I am thinking that a high sun, small breeze, and low humidity ought to spell a good day for a sun tan.
What is logos?
Aristotle called this "the first requirement of style."
What is Clarity?
The beauty of the Austin Building is just...so overpowering...I...can't....I just can't.
What is Aposiopesis?
Diction, tone, phrasing, attitude--and other such elements.
What is style?
What are datum, claim, backing, warrant, and restriction?
The fancy word for "Things which elicit emotional responses."
What is pathemata?
Another name for stylistic distinction.
What is urbanity or what is ornament?