This part of rhetoric is concerned with finding, storing, and retrieving subject matter.
What is Invention?
100
This is telling or retelling stories from myth, history, and law.
What is the narrative?
100
Using the story of "The Ant and the Grasshopper" to illustrate the importance of diligence would be an example of this exercise.
What is the Fable?
100
This part of the essay concerns the introduction, detail paragraphs, and the conclusion.
What is Organization?
100
This phrase consists of a verb form used as an adjective.
What is a participial phrase?
200
This is the name of the set of preliminary exercises designed to introduce speakers and writers to rhetoric.
What is the progymnasmata?
200
This shows which of two persons or things is better or worse.
What is the Comparison?
200
The use of the saying "Good things come to those who wait" in the introduction of an essay on the importance of patience would be an example of this exercise.
What is the Proverb?
200
This part of your essay concerns your major points whether or not they are sufficiently developed.
What is substance?
200
This phrase functions as a noun to rename the noun preceding it.
What is an appositive phrase?
300
This part of rhetoric is concerned with the art of putting arguments into a pattern intended to arouse, inform, or persuade the audience.
What is Arrangement?
300
This exercise is the amplification of a wise saying or action for the purpose of moral instruction.
What is the Anecdote?
300
Writing an editorial against gun control legislation would be an example of this exercise.
What is For and Against Laws?
300
This part of your essay concerns every paragraph supporting the thesis statement and every sentence supporting the topic sentence of the paragraph. There is no irrelevant information.
What is Focus?
300
This phrase consists of a noun followed by a participle.
What is an aboslute phrase?
400
This part of Rhetoric is concerned with choosing the best sentences and best words and putting them in the best order.
What is Style?
400
This exercise is composing monologues or soliloquies for real or fictitious people to deliver in particular circumstances.
What is the Speech-in-Character?
400
Condemning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his part in the Boston Marathon bombing would be an example of this exercise.
What is Praising/Blaming?
400
These two style concerns are not considered appropriate for formal, academic essays.
What are first (or second) person and contractions?
400
This type of phrase is contained in this sentence: "Looking intently at her master, the goldendoodle awaited her treat."
What is a participial phrase?
500
This process concerns the use of voice or gestures in an oral performance, or in the case of writing, would involve punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, spacing, typographical devices, etc.
What is Delivery?
500
This exercise is the disproving or proving the truth or probability of a narrative or given statement.
What is Refutation/Confirmation?
500
Condemning the Boston Marathon bombing would be an example of this exercise.
What is the Commonplace?
500
This grammatical problem is illustrated by this sentence:
"The emphatic nature of the speaker's points, pounding the propaganda into the brains of his audience until they were convinced of his argument."
What is a sentence fragment?
500
These phrases are included in the following sentence: "Tail wagging, the dog, a goldendoodle, bounded up to the boy, knocking him over.
What is absolute phrase, appositive phrase, and participial phrase?