Load the Canons
This canon requires the orator to memorize the speech.
What is MEMORIA?
British taxes led to the American Revolution.
What is RELATIONSHIP?
These two ancient civilizations are commonly referred to by the adjective "classical".
What are GREECE and ROME?
This part reviews the discourse's argument and encourages a response.
What is the PERORATIO?
The cow is a farm animal raised for milk and meat.
What is the PLAIN STYLE?
With this canon, an orator invents or discovers arguments for a speech.
What is INVENTIO?
Guthrie's has better chicken than Zaxby's.
What is COMPARISON?
This branch of rhetoric was used to honor the worthy at special occasions.
What is CEREMONIAL RHETORIC?
This part gives background on the discourse's subject, to set up the argument.
What is the NARRATIO?
The storm blew up fierce and sudden, like a charging bull.
What is a TROPE?
This canon involves the selection and arrangement of a speech's arguments.
What is DISPOSITIO?
A taco isn't a sandwich, but a hot dog is.
What is DEFINITION?
This branch of rhetoric was used by lawyers for arguing guilt or innocence in court.
What is JUDICIAL RHETORIC?
This part of the discourse presents the arguments for the main claim.
What is the CONFIRMATIO?
The lonely little calf mooed plaintively.
What is the MOVING STYLE?
The Greek word for this canon compares it to performing a role in a play.
What is PRONUNTIATIO?
A colony on Venus is possible but unlikely.
What is CIRCUMSTANCE?
This branch of rhetoric was used in the Roman Senate when debating the empire's policy.
What is DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC?
This part gets the audience's attention and introduces the discourse's subject.
What is the EXORDIUM?
This is the poem of a cow.
It started then; it ended now.
What is a SCHEME?
With this canon, the orator picks the best words and phrases for a speech.
What is ELOCUTIO?
Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen a UFO.
What is TESTIMONY?
This Ancient Greek orator practiced his speeches beside the crashing ocean.
Who is DEMOSTHENES?
This part answers objections from those opposed to the discourse's argument.
What is the CONFUTATIO?
The imperious ungulate surveyed its squalid demesne with disapprobation.
What is the FLORID STYLE?