Enthymemes!
Which could be eliminated so that you could rely on enthymemes
Socrates is a Man
Men are Mortal
Socrates is Mortal
Men are Mortal
Type of rhetoric used to make decisions about the future.
Deliberative
The art of finding the available means of persuasion in a given situation
Aristotle
The dramatistic pentad had how many parts?
5, duh...
Many people equate rhetoric with what? Or: What do most people say is the purpose of rhetoric?
PERSUASION!
One way to understand the enthymeme is by thinking about it as a truncated, or partial, WHAT?
Syllogism
Epideictic rhetoric is mainly about...
values, beliefs, praise, blame
"It's dumb. Bah humbug. I hate it!" More or less, until later in life he wrote that it was "leading the soul"
Plato
What are the parts of the pentad?
Act, Agent, Scene, Agency, Purpose
Who was Aspasia?
A Greek courtesan and possibly a teacher of rhetoric.
Who theorized the enthymeme?
Aristotle
What kind of rhetoric would you most likely find in a courtroom?
Judicial or forensic (same thing, just two different names)
A good man speaking well
Quintillian
How did Burke define humans?
Symbol using animals
Who is the famous Sophist that Plato wrote an entire dialogue making fun of?
Gorgias
What is one enthymeme you need to understand to get the argument of this poster?
Elder will tell you if you got it right.
Who theorized the three branches of rhetoric?
Aristotle!
“the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents”
Kenneth Burke
What was the main purpose of rhetoric for Kenneth Burke?
Identification
How did Aristotle's view of truth differ from Plato's?
Aristotle believed that observation helped us see the truth, thus truth can be changed. It is socially mitigated--in other words we understand what is true through our societal and cultural lenses.
Why are enthymemes so important in rhetoric?
Forces the rhetor to take the audience into account.
List three examples of an epideictic speech
Wedding toast, eulogy, sermon, teaching, standup comedy, and MORE!
I.A. Richards
With different technologies available and many social changes from the time of Ancient Greece, why did Burke think it was necessary to think about Rhetoric more in terms of Identification than Persuasion
Elder will tell you, but essentially because there's a lot more give and take to rhetoric now. No more one man standing in front of a crowd.
We barely talked about this, but: What is kairos?
Timing