Final Exam Flashcards
Luke 6:45 teaches us that…
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
What did Plato think of rhetoric?
Rhetoric accomplishes what it does on the basis of experience, not knowledge.
Aristotle asserts that “rhetoric is the counterpart” of what?
Dialectic
What is Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric?
“The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”
What are the three appeals of rhetoric?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Character/ ethics
Ethos
Emotion
Pathos
Reason
Logos
What are the five canons of rhetoric?
Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery
Courtroom or legal (past)
Forensic
Praise or blame (present)
Epideictic
Persuade toward particular course of action (future)
Deliberative
Enthymeme
The substance of rhetorical persuasion, but deal mainly with non-essentials
According to Aristotle, what are the four forms of government?
Democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy
What three things inspire confidence in the orator’s own character according to Aristotle?
Good sense, good moral character, goodwill
What three points does Aristotle make that are required to arouse emotion?
- what state of mind the person is in
- who the people are that the person is showing the emotion towards
- on what grounds they have that emotion
According to Aristotle, what are a few things that cause friendship?
Doing kindnesses, doing those kindnesses unasked, not proclaiming the fact that they are done
What do the correspondences in Screwtape Letters aim to accomplish?
To deceive the Patient against God and tell the Patient lies.
Attack on a person instead of the argument
Ad hominem
An argument based on an appeal to fear or a threat
Argumentum ad baculum
Concluding that an idea has merit simply because many people believe it or practice it
Bandwagon fallacy
Causal relationship between two states or events on the basis of temporal succession “it happened after, so it was caused by”
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
An implied comparison between two different things which share at least one attribute in common
Metaphor
An overt comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar – usually with the words “like” or “as”.
Simile
Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question
Hypophora
Figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied
Rhetorical question
Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions
Polysyndeton
Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses
Asyndeton
Figure of association in which a highly unusual or outlandish comparison is made between two things.
Catachresis
Figure that binds together two words that are ordinarily contradictory
Oxymoron
What was Newport’s goal in writing Digital Minimalism?
To make the case for digital minimalism, including a more detailed exploration of what it asks and why it works, and then to teach you how to adopt this philosophy.
