Old Exams: Exam 2 Flashcards
In order to learn how to make more effective emotional appeals, Renaissance humanists studied:
Pathologia
Who wrote the following:
“Socrates separated the science of wise thinking from that of eloquent speaking, though in reality they are closely linked together.”
Cicero, in De Oratore
When a candidate, who is campaigning for political office speaks publicly why voting for her would be good for citizens and voting for her opponent would be bad for them, we describe such speeches as _____ rhetoric
Deliberative
Which of Cicero’s Five Classical Canons of Orations deals with the lexical (i.e. word choices we make in order to express our ideas?)
Elocution
Which of the following was not one of the early forms of preaching in the Chrisitian Church?
hermeneutic
Ramus accused Quintilian of overreaching in his definition of rhetoric by…..
Failing to “fit in the moral philosophy which he now attributes to rhetoric.
Four factors influenced the use of classical rhetoric in the early Christian church. Which of the following is not one of those factors?
The importance of carrying on the Greco-Roman rhetorical traditions
Which notion reflected the belief that the individuals duties should go first to his country that has given him citizenship and language?
Vita activa
Who argued the following:
“It is the duty then of the student and teach of holy scriptures who is the defender of the true faith and the opponent of error both to teach what is right and to correct what is wrong?”
Augustine
______ used his wisdom and eloquence to adovocate on behalf of and eventually gave his life for the rule of law in Rome.
Cicero
Which of the early Christian scholars made it possible for Christians to appreciate and teach eloquence without associating it with paganism, and in so doing permanently enriched Christian literature and rhetorical criticism in the Western World?
Austine
Who split the ancient and venerable Ciceronian pair of wisdom and eloquence when he described rhetoric as providing only linquistic embellishment and elegance of language along with the baits for capturing ears?”
Agricola
Which of the following is taught in theological seminaries in order to train Christian teachers and preachers the rules for correctly interpreting scriptures in the Christian Bible?
Hermeneutics
For the Italian humanists, what was the source of emotions or passions in the human mind?
affectus
Who defined rhetoric or speech as simply the garment to clothe our reason?
Ramus
When Ramus argued, “Speech is the garment to clothe our reason” he meant
That sound thinking is more important than eloquent speaking
A sermon in which the speaker begins by reading a verse from scripture then provides an interpretation of it and concludes by exhorting the congregation to obey the word of God and live according to the teaching discussed would be considered what form of preaching?
Homily
For some Renaissance humanists the _______ was to reject the essence of humanity and at the same time to undermine civilization.”
Vita contemplativa
Who among the following is considered by many scholars to have been the greatest teacher of rhetoric in Rome?
Quintilian
Who would argue that Christian preachers and teacher did not need to rely on the greco-roman teachings about rhetoric as chrsitians tried to spread their message about jesus?
cyprian
who questioned what athens had to do with jerusalem?
terullian
Who was chiefly responsible for moving rhetoric “from being a master art, holding sway over other arts and, in some writers, over life itself, to being a marginal study with a limited practical application and a suspect heritage?”
Ramus
“We cannot trust his opponent no matter what he says because he has lied in the past.” Is this an example of an enthymeme and if it is what is the minor premise?
Yes this statement is an enthymeme. the minor premise is: he has lied in the past
Who defined rhetoric as vir bonus, dicendi peritus?
Quintillian
Augustine argued the end of _______
of eloquence is to persuade
Who were the big three that ramus wanted to dethroen?
aristotle, cicero, and quintilian
During the renaisssance the earlier christian model of solitary contemplation of divine truth codified in monastic rules was rejected as antisocial, as the private use of the public property of _____ and ______.
ratio and oratio
in terms of argumentative skill, how is jesus portrayed in the bible?
adept in both argumentative skill as well as dialectic and preaching
why did ramus reject quintillians definintion of oratory?
he was opposed to the idea that studying rhetoric could make you a good person
christian panegyrical rhetoric praised_____
jesus
He was the most wide-ranging but perhaps also the most influential of all humanist scholars.
Valla
For Lorenzo Vall moral truth was found in
the standards of common sense of ordinary people
For Augustine, the “Christian Teacher’s Dilemma” is that….
rhetoric is both useful and suspect
If he had to choose between you eating plain shredded wheat or a sugary cereal, _________ would prefer you eat shredded wheat; however he would promote the consumption of sugar-frosted mini-wheats, because he saw nothing wrong with wholesome sweets to sweet wholesomeness.
Augustine
who was responsible for splitting ciceros classical canons of rhetoric in his efforts to demote rhetoric?
ramus
which of the following is not one of the similarities between greek philosophical rhetoric and judeo-christian rhetoric?
the source of the ultimate truth
what was Lorenzo Valla’s position on the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy?
The soldier of philosophy is under the command of oratory
Who said the following: “since therefore there has been placed at our disposal of the power of eloquence which is so efficacious in pleading either for the erroneous cause or the right, why is it not zealously acquired by the good so as to do service for the truth?
Augustine
Petrarchs ideal of culivated learning combined:
civic responsibility and literary arts
Thomas s Aquinas is credited with “saving rhetoric from being rejected by the early Christian Church in the Western World. T/F?
False
The ciceronian concept of a perfectus orator is built on the idea of a speaker flawlessly delivering poltical speeches. T/F??
False
There is no evidence of rhetoric in the hebrew bible/ christian old testament. T/F?
False
Augustine revived teh concept of ethos in Christian instruction about preaching but he altered its meaning to represent not the character of the spearker created in the sermon but the virtuous life of the Christian as a moral authority. T/F?
True
Renaissance humanism focused on the empirical/ scientific search for reality
False
Cicero is considered by many scholars to be the greatest Roman orator and the most important latin writes of rhetoric. T/F?
True
One reason Quintilian taught rhetoric was the political context during his career allowed for freedom speech, especially deliberative oratory. T/F?
False
Precepts of rules for good speech in the bible can be found in books constituting the wisdom literature (eg proverbs) T/F?
True
Most christian teacher during the early church share the greek philosophical view of how to discover Truth?
false
