Terms (Rhetoric by Richard Toye)

Question 1

The Scaffolding of Rhetoric

Answer 1

A term used by Winston Churchill to describe key concepts familiar in the ancient world that are still much in use today in

Question 2

Kairos

Answer 2

the opportune moment.

Note: as Aristotle suggested that the art of rhetoric lies in identifying the opportunities presented by the situation at hand, not in the sterile combination of figures of speech for their own sake.

Question 3

Visual Rhetoric

Answer 3

ways in which clothing, gestures, and the use of physical space that reinforces verbal messages

Question 4

What are the three branches of Oratory

Answer 4

1) Forensic/ Judicial Rhetoric
2) Epideictic/ display rhetoric
3) Deliberative Rhetoric

Question 5

Forensic/ Judicial Rhetoric

Answer 5

is found in a courtroom or other legal contexts

Question 6

Epideictic/ Display Rhetoric

Answer 6

Rhetoric concerned with praise or blame

Question 6

Oratory

Answer 6

the art or practice of formal speaking in public.

Question 7

Deliberative Rhetoric

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used to persuade a group, for example, of voters or legislators towards a particular course of action

Question 8

What the general five canons of Rhetoric?

Answer 8

1) Invention/discovery
2) Arrangement
3) style
4) memory
5) delivery

Question 9

Invention/ discovery

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refers to the process of coming up with arguments appropriate to the situation. This involves;ves reflecting on the nature of the audience.

Question 10

Stasis

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• series of questions
• helps rhetors decide the process of invetion and discovery
• what they themselves believe is fundamentally at stake

Question 11

Topoi

Answer 11

means a series of ways looking at problems in order to generate arguments

Question 12

arrangment

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concerns the ordering of material of literature or conversation, presentation

Question 13

Style

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style is concerned with language. The choice of words and of the ways that they are put together as figures of speech- can never be neutral.

Question 14

Delivery

Answer 14

the questions of accent, posture, gesture, tone of voice, and so forth, that may have a profound effect on how a speech is received.

Question 15

Memory

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the importance of memory to speechmaking, memorizing prepared texts in order to deliver them verbatim

Question 16

What are the three appeals

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1) ēthos (character)
2) pathos (emotion)
3) logos (logic)

Question 17

Logos

Answer 17

Logic

relating to rhetoric it would be used in the context of logically convincing someone of something

Question 18

ethos

Answer 18

Character

appealing to character (I am a good teacher take my class) to convince someone of something

Question 19

pathos

Answer 19

Emotion

appealing to emotion to convince someone of something

Question 20

Macro Question of Rhetoric

Answer 20

1) what is the nature of a speech
2) how is it constructed and delivered
3) does it play on reason, emotion, or character

Question 21

Rhetorical Question

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a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Question 22

Simile

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where we say that one thing is like another, draws attention to the fact that comparison is being made

Question 23

Metaphor

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where we say one thing is another ( time is money, life is a journey etc..)

Question 24

Tricolon

Answer 24

is a rhetorical term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.

Question 25

antithesis (contrast)

Answer 25

a literary device that employs contrasting elements to highlight the stark differences between ideas, characters or situations (ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country)

Question 26

antimetabole

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a figure of speech in which a phrase is repeated, but with the order of words reversed

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” is a famous example of antimetabole.

Question 27

anaphora

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the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of different clauses or sentences

Question 28

epiphora/epistrophe

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where the repetition a word comes at the end of different clauses or sentences

Question 29

prolepsis

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where you draw objections to your own argument and then rebut them in advance

Question 30

paralipsis

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the practice of drawing attention to something whilst pretending to pass over it as in ‘ I see no need to dwell on my opponent’s drinking problem’

Question 31

enthymeme

Answer 31

proving your point without going through all the stages of formal logic