Chapter 1 Flashcards
Aesthetics
principles of beauty and artistic taste
Appeals
Methods used to elicit an emotion or a response from the audience
Argument
Reasoning I’m public with the goal of influencing an audience
Argumentative Hypothesis
Showing others that we have arguments to support our view
Arrangement
Planned ordering of the message
Disposito
Arrangement (Cicero)
Elocutio
Style, appropriate language (Cicero)
Ideology
A system of beliefs
Imventio
The process of coming up with arguments (Cicero)
Motives
Commitments and goals leading to action
Rhetor
A person involved in rhetorical discourse
Art of Rhetoric
The study and practice of effective symbolic expression
Type of discourse
Goal-oriented, seeks to adapt ideas to an audience
Rhetorical discourse
Language used according to the art of rhetoric
Rhetorical theory
Systematic presentation and explanation of rhetoric’s principles