Basic Stuff
The art of persuasion
Appeal of emotion
What is Pathos?
Utilizes figures of speech: tropes & schemes.
Aims at determining the justice/injustice of past actions.
Fallacy where rhetor attacks the speaker rather than the argument.
What is Dialectic?
Reveals the speaker's credibility.
What is Ethos?
Uses Exordium, Narratio, Partitio, Confirmatio, Refutatio, and Peroratio.
What is Organization?
Aims at determining the most adbantageous course of action in the future.
What is Deliberative Rhetoric?
Levels of Verbal Style
What are Low, Middle, High?
The father of rhetoric
Who is Aristotle?
Appeal of Reason
What is Logos?
Uses mneumonics, palaces, and other tricks.
What is Memoria (or memory)?
Praises or blames according to honor as it is understood in the present.
What is Epideictic Rhetoric?
Five Common Topics
What are Definition, Comparison, Relationship, Circumstance, and Testimony?
Taught young Greek men how to persuade and manipulate.
What were Sophists?
Appeal that deals with the audience.
What is Pathos?
Uses the 5 Common Topics.
Would be used at a funeral or wedding.
What is Epideictic Rhetoric?
Repetition of similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
Most famous allegory for philosophic education in the Western World.
An abbreviated syllogism.
What is an enthememe?
Uses gestures and voice.
What is Delivery?
The three transcendentals.
What are Truth, Goodness, and Beauty?
Three parts of classical organization that deal with Ethos.
What are Exordium, Narratio, Partitio?