Material Logic
Rhetoric Basics
Three Modes of Persuasion
Five Canons
Trivium Pursuit
100

The classifications of universal concepts according to comprehension and extension.

What are the 10 Categories and the 5 Predicables.

100

Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric

"The art of finding in any given subject the available means of persuasion."

100

The three-word shorthand for Aristotle's division of the modes of persuasion.

What are ethos, pathos, and logos.

100

The Five Canons (in order)

What are Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memorization, and Delivery

100

The Three Language Arts or the Trivium

What are Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.

200

The Ten Categories (need not be in proper order)

What are substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, posture, possession.

200

The set of conditions that exist before the act of rhetoric commences, in reference to which the oratory is created, and into which it enters.

What is the Rhetorical Situation.

200

"Believe me. I'm a doctor" is an appeal from what mode of persuasion?

What is ethos.

200

The sounds, sights, and non-essential meaning qualities of the language, determined by word choice, grouping, and delivery.

What is style.

200

A form of argumentation in which the author attempts to imitate life in words (or in some other medium) and presents a facet of lived experience to the audience.

What is poetic persuasion.

300

The Five Predicables

What are Genus, Species, Difference, Property, and Accident.

300

The three branches of rhetorical persuasion


What are Judicative, Epideictic, and Deliberative Rhetoric.

300

The two most basic forms of stick-and-carrot persuasion by pathos.

What is an appeal to fear and desire.

300

“The devising of matter, true or plausible, that would make the case convincing.”

What is Invention.

300

While good deductive arguments are said to be valid, good inductive arguments are said to be _____.

What is cogent.

400

The Definition of Definition

The complete verbal expression of the comprehended reality of a thing or concept.

400

This is what kind of rhetoric?

MARGE: Homer, I don’t want you driving around in a car you built yourself. 

HOMER: You can sit there complaining, or you can knit me some seat belts

What is deliberative rhetoric.

400

What kind of appeal is used here? 

DAD: Look, Calvin. You’ve got to relax a little. Your balance will be better if you’re loose. 

CALVIN: I can’t help it! Imminent death makes me tense! I admit it!

What is logos (and concession)

400

Four principles of style

What are clarity, correctness, propriety, and beauty.

400

The greatest ancient Roman orator, he was nicknamed "Tully" in the Middle Ages and adulated in the Renaissance.

Who is Cicero.

500

The Four Kinds of Causal Answers to the Question "Why"?

What are the Formal Cause, Material Cause, Efficient Cause, and Final Cause.

500

Rhetoric is one of four kinds of Argumentation. What are the other three?

What are Judicative, Dialectical, and Poetic.

500

The ancient Romans coined a word to describe this kind of character-based agreeability that matches the audience’s expectations for a leader’s tone, appearance, and manners.

What is decorum.

500

A "Memory Palace" refers to what sort of ancient mnemonic tool?

Constructing an imaginary place with prompt-images (or similar explanation)

500
Widely considered to be the greatest Christian orator after the Council of Nicaea, he was nicknamed "Golden Mouth" by his Greek audience.

Who is St. John Chrysostom.