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Medieval grammarians used tropes and figures to teach this form or writing
What is ars poetria
100
Define 3 ways to persuade your audience
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
100
An artful use of language to achieve a special meaning or effect
What is a figure
100
Advocacy on behalf of ending slavery
What is Abolitionism
100
What is an argument that draws a conclusion first by setting up two possibilities, one of which is more probable than the other?
What is a Fortiori
200
The medieval form of letter writing
What is ars dictaminis
200
This is the term used when you appeal to the audiences logic
What is Logos
200
A body of text that a culture's literary establishment considers the best and most influential
What is a canon
200
Writing is valued for its style and aesthetic qualities rather than its persuasive force or informational content
What is belles lettres
200
Medieval instruction in forensic speaking
What is Ars Arengandi
300
What is a narrative or story that uses literal and figurative meaning to communicate a doctrine or moral
What is an allegory
300
This is the term used when you appeal to the audiences emotions
What is Pathos
300
The art of oral delivery
What is elocution
300
1.All people are moral 2.Socrates is a person 3.Therefore Socrates is moral
What is deductive/deduction method
300
The rhetorical art of preaching
What is ars praedicandi
400
Topics or the locations of standard categories of arguements
What is commonplaces or common topics
400
This is the term used when you appeal to the audiences trust
What is Ethos
400
A 17th century term named after a biblical prophet used to describe a bitter lamentation.
What is black jeremiad
400
The practice of inquiry and argumentation through conversation
What is dialectic
400
This term describes how people acquire knowledge
What is epistemology
500
This method of reading focuses on binary oppositions within a text.
What is deconstruction
500
Arrangement,Invention,Delivery, Memory, and Style
What are the 5 cannons of rhetoric
500
a style of speaking featuring ornamentation and a swift, even wild manner of speech.
What is Asianist Style
500
A phrase coined by Daniel Fogarty in1959 to describe the most common method of American writing instruction. This method focused on Alexander Bain's mode of discourse -- narration, exposition, persuasion, and grammar
What is current-traditional composition
500
A method of linguistic and conceptual analysis. This method treats language and thought through modes of symbolic action rather than means of conveying information.
What is dramatism