More Exam 4

Question 1

hypokrisis

Answer 1

delivery

Question 2

lexis

Answer 2

style

Question 3

taxis

Answer 3

arrangement

Question 4

3 parts of voice

Answer 4

volume, pitch, rhythm

Question 5

2 aspects of delivery

Answer 5

voice, movement

Question 6

4 characteristics of style

Answer 6

correct, clear, appropriate, ornamented

Question 7

3 levels of style

Answer 7

attic (simple), rhodean (middle), asiatic (grand)

Question 8

4 kinds of frigidities

Answer 8

double words, glosses, epithets, inappropriate metaphors

Question 9

3 methods for achieving urbanity of style

Answer 9

metaphor, antithesis, actualization

Question 10

2 parts of arrangement

Answer 10

state your case, prove your case

Question 11

Progymnasmata

Answer 11

method for teaching rhetoric one step at a time

Question 12

Fable

Answer 12

step 1; retell simple stories to apply morals to new situations

Question 13

Tale

Answer 13

step 2; fictions retold from epic poems, historical stories, etc.; taught grammatical structure & rhetorical structure

Question 14

Chreia

Answer 14

step 3; amplification of a theme or topic; taught how to develop a good thesis and build an argument

Question 15

Proverb

Answer 15

step 4; additional practice doing the chreia; praising the wisdom of the person who said the proverb and then develop proof, contrast, illustration, enthymeme, authority

Question 16

Confirmation & Refutation

Answer 16

step 5; asking questions and building positions to support or overturn an understanding; supporting the truth or falsity of an allegation of fact

Question 17

Commonplace

Answer 17

step 6; throw a favorable or unfavorable light on accepted facts

Question 18

Encomium

Answer 18

step 7; enlarge on praise of virtue or dispraise of vice; add to commonplaces by thinking broadly of issues of good and evil; requires an extensive knowledge and understanding of ones society and values

Question 19

Comparison

Answer 19

step 8; which of two characters is better or worse; focus on the nature, degrees of virtues and vices, & management of praise and censure generally

Question 20

Impersonation

Answer 20

step 9; compose an imaginary monologue by a historical, legendary, or fictitious person under given circumstances; introduces principles of ethical proof: speech must be adjusted to speaker, audience, and situation

Question 21

Description

Answer 21

step 10; training in vivid presentation of details; bringing before ones eyes

Question 22

Thesis

Answer 22

step 11; topic on which much can be said on both sides; part of the exercise is discovering the best of what can be said–inquiry into a matter still in doubt

Question 23

Legislation

Answer 23

step 12; speaking for or against a law which might be real or fictitious

Question 24

Isocrates

Answer 24

most important teacher in Greece; writes about broad cases of teaching/learning

Question 25

Quintilian

Answer 25

most important Roman teacher; explains what it means to be liberally educated; what should you study? how should you study?