Defining Rhetoric
Canons
Curveballs
Appeals
Topos
100

Quintillian's definition of Rhetoric

what is, "a good man speaking well?"

100

The five canons of rhetoric

What are:

invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory

100

The youngest 11th grader

Who is Delilah Doster?

100

The three appeals (in Gk)

What are ethos, pathos, and logos?

100

The number of "common" topics

What are five?

200

Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric

What is "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion?"

200

The things we should keep me in mind when thinking about Style and the things we should keep when mind when thinking about Delivery

What are clear & appropriate for Style and volume, pitch, and rhythm for Delivery?

200

The oldest 11th grader

Who is Sara Burdette?

200

The three things that aspire confidence in the speaker. (in Gk)

What are phronesis, arete', and eunoia?

200

The translation of "topos"

What is places?

300

The lost art that Quintilian thought needed to be recovered and added to the study of rhetoric.

What is moral philosophy?

300

The parts of the Partito

What are the Thesis and Roadmap?

300

The two staring men on posters in the back of Mr. V's class

Who are Urlich Zwingli & Thomas Cranmer?

300

The two things we use to argue in our confirmatio

What are enthymemes and examples?

300

Etymology

What is a subtopic of Deffintion?



400

The ancient allegory that helps provide a picture and story to better understand Philosophy and Rhetoric's aim.

What is Plato's Cave?

400

The two parts of invention and their particulars

What are the Appeals (ethos, pathos, & logos) and the 5 Topics (Definition, Comparison, Relationship, Circumstance, & Testimony)?

400

Mr. V's favorite pro sports team

Who is the Green Bay Packers?

400

Aristotle's definition of emotion.

What is "all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements that are attended by pain or pleasure?"

400

Past Fact / Future Advantage

What is a subtopic of Circumstance?



500

Plato's definition of Rhetoric in his dialogue, "Gorgias"

What is, "most noble art that uses words to persuade in matters of justice or injustice in accordance with knowledge in order to produce true belief?"


500

The six parts or organization and their corresponding appeals

What are the introduction (Exordium, Narratio, & Partitito) which focuses on Ethos, the body (Confirmation & Refutation) which focuses on Logos, and the conclusion (Peroratio) which focuses on Pathos?

500

The amount of books that Aristotle published

What is a trick question with the answer of... none?

He wrote 200 works, but none of them were published by Aristotle, many students later took his lecture notes or writings and copied them for distribution.

500

The play that helped illustrate Pathos so well in our Rhetoric Alive! book

What is Julius Caesar?

500

Degree

What is a subtopic of Comparison?