Appeals
The appeal corresponding to character or reputation.
What is ethos?
This occasion is primarily concerned with actions taking place in the future.
What is political/deliberative?
The Latin word corresponding to the Canon of Memory.
What is Memoria?
From Shakespeare's Othello:
I thank you for this profit, and from hence
I’ll love no friend, since love breeds such offence.
What is rhyme?
The other word for "logic" in the Trivium.
What is dialectic?
A person whose reputation is poor in the eyes of his audience has this kind of ethos.
What is bad situated ethos?
The "time" with which Judicial rhetoric is concerned.
What is past?
The topic of Invention which includes nominal, essential, and adjuncts as examples.
What is Definition?
What is ekphrasis?
______ : cosmetics :: ______ : rhetoric
What is fitness and justice?
This technique of logos instills a premise in the mind of the audience without stating it outright.
What is an enthymeme?
The means by which Political rhetoric accomplishes its end.
What is exhortation/dehortation?
The Latin word corresponding to the Canon of Arrangement.
What is Dispositio"
The broader genus that includes the comparison of things using like or as.
What is metaphor?
What is dialectic?
Threatening an audience with embarrassment or shame properly belongs to this appeal.
What is pathos?
The "end" of Ceremonial rhetoric which blames a subject.
What is dishonor?
A fallacy of tragic proportions when witchcraft is involved.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
"Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks."
What is assonance?
(Half points for consonance)
The reason Nixon's speech might mourn the lunar catastrophe, while a simultaneous Soviet speech might celebrate it.
What is [both/rhetoric] reasons to opposite or contradictory conclusions.
Brutus tells his audience that he would gladly use the same dagger on himself with which he murdered Caesar if Rome ever required it of him. This is ultimately this kind of appeal.
What is ethos?
Because of our nature, this is the most noble of the occasions of rhetoric.
What is Political rhetoric?
What is definition by adjuncts?
The most prominent figure to be found in Hamlet's famous soliloquy:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub;
What is consonance?
(Half points for metaphor)
Appetizing but almost always certainly wrong answer.
What is "many sandwiches"?