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Rhetoric Readings Book 1 Flashcards

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Who said: “Rhetoric is a branch of communication theory that is concerned with the production and reception of persuasive and informative discourse”

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Dr. Smith

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What is the negative conotation of rhetoric?

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Empty and inflammatory. Brings about emotion without reason.

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Eloquence

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a person with excellent rhetorical skill: a good speaker or communicator

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“There is no institution devised by man which the power of speech has not helped us establish” was said by

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Isocrates

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How is rhetoric necessary?

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builds community, shares beliefs, and shares action

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who related practice, criticism and theory to the fruit of a tree?

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Dr. Smith

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Where else do we rhetorical communication?

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Media

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The core of rhetorical education in

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imitation guided by principles

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Parts of rhetorical education

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  1. Character Enculturation
  2. Extensive Knowledge of human culture and inquiry
  3. Writing and revising own writing
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What was a progymnasmata

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a series of rhetorical writing and speech exercises for students to perform

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Poor methods of education lead to

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weak and/or unethical rhetoric

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Who wrote “Dialogue on Oratory”

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The Roman historian, Tacitus

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Tacitus lived when?

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between 56 and 120 AD

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Who was born 150 years before Tacitus

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Cicero

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Tacitus’s “Dialogue on Oratory” is focussed on

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eloquence, or effective and beautiful communication

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When was aristotle’s lifetime

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384-322BC

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How did Aristotle view rhetoric?

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that it was important for elite greeks to know about, but not necessarily to practice themselves since they were trained to be thinkers, not public figures

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What is aristotle’s most well known theory?

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the 3 appeals

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What is argued by aristotle as the ethical core of rhetoric?

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logic/argumentation

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Aristotle viewing ethos and pathos through a logos lens

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Ethos and pathos appeals were tyes of logical argument that strengthened the ethos of the rhetor or engaged the emotions and values of the audience

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4 components to analyzing pathos

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  1. stimulus
  2. audience
  3. emotion
  4. object
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stimulus

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rhetorical strategy

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object of the emotion

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where it is directed

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logos

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meaning and message as a whole

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claim

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the core or anchor of the argument, the conclusion

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data

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what supports the claim, the rationale

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arrangement

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the relations between claims

28
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who wrote: “Of Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Huamn”

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Francis Bacon

29
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Who wrote “The Art of Rhetoric”

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John Holmes

30
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“The duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will”

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Francis Bacon

31
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Francis Bacons’ Faculty Psychology

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win the imagination from the affections part

32
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Francis Bacons said: “For the end of logic is to teach a form of….”

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“argument to secure reason, and not to entrap it”

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Francis Bacons said: The end of morality is to…

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Procure the affections to obey reason, not to invade it

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Francis Bacons said, The end of rhetoric is to full the imagination to…

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second reason, not to oppress it

35
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Holmes said there are three things to invention of speaking:

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  1. quickness
  2. method/art
  3. application
36
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What are all arguments founded?

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Reason, morals or the affections

37
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Who said argument is a way for making good a proof by which one thing is concluded from another and what is doubtful is confirmed by what is not?

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Quintilian

38
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What proofs belong to the inartificial argument?

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Prejudices, reports, tortures, written deeds, oaths and witnesses

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What do artificial proofs consist of

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  1. Signs
  2. Arguments
  3. Examples
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What is disposition?

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the proper arrangement of the arguments or parts of an oration

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Exordium

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introduction

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Principium

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when an orator plainly and directly professes his aim in speaking at the introduction

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Insinuatio

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an introduction when the orator speaks in the favour of the audience before openly saying the point he has in view

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Narration

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discourse informing the viewer of the matter in dispute

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The six parts of regular formal oration

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  1. Exordium
  2. Narration
  3. Proposition
  4. Confirmation
  5. Refutation
  6. Peroration
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Proposition

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the distinct and express manner of laying down the subject upon which the speaker designs to treat

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Confirmation

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part of a discourse that contains the arguments which are necessary

48
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The four classical virtues of style are

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  1. Clarity
  2. Correctness
  3. Appropriateness
  4. Distinction
49
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What are the six types of audiences?

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  1. Target
  2. Secondary
  3. Imagined
  4. Invoked
  5. Implied
  6. Real
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Invoked Audience

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an audience that is explicitly constructed through the discource, ie. using “we all being in justice”

51
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Forum

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the physical or virtual spaces where many genres occur. For example, social media

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Stasis theory

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discerning where the uncertainty lies at the present moment of debate or inquiry

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Three major stases

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  1. Conjecture/Fact
  2. Definition
  3. Quality
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Kairos

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how the time and occasion influences what can or should be said

55
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genre

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type of communication

Rhetoric 369 (6 decks)

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