Introduction Flashcards
1
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What is Rhetoric?
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The art of eloquent and persuasive speaking and writing
2
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Arostotle’s definition of rhetoric
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The faculty of observing in any given case; the available means of persuasion
3
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Cornerstones of rhetoric
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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
4
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Is persuasion always ethical?
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No
5
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Pre-technical
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- earliest writings
- used by men
- examples: Scripture and Homer’s works
6
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Technical
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- Rhetoric was intentionally taught in assemblies and courts by observation and imitation in Athens
- Athenian Democracy (466)
- No lawyers so citizens had to take up their own cases in court
7
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Sophistical
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- Focus on speaker’s ability
- Questions arose about ethics, the role of emotions, and the role of truth
- Socrates found fault with the Sophists because he valued truth over persuasion.
8
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Biblical
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- The use of persuasion in the Bible
- what is the first job God gave man?
- Why is naming something important? what does a name mean?
- how was God persuasive in scripture? what are some examples of God pleading with man?
- What are some examples of God’s people pleading with the world?
9
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what constitutes the Aristotelian trivium?
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rhetoric, poem, Organon
10
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Where did Aristotle study?
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Plato’s Academy
11
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Whom did Aristotle tutor?
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Alexander the great
12
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What are the three kinds of persuasive oratory?
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forensic, political, epideictic
13
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What are considered the primary points of interest in each book?
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- Book 1 is about the speaker
- Book 2 is about the audience
- Book 3 is about the speech
14
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What are the three artistic proofs?
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- pathos
- logos
- ethos
