Midterm - Key Terms

Question 1

techne

Answer 1

a true art or discipline

Question 2

agon

Answer 2

rhetorical tension or strife, a foundation of democratic culture

Question 3

Kairos

Answer 3

the search for relative truth through careful attention to the appropriateness of time and place. A practical knowledge.

Question 4

episteme

Answer 4

truth/ true knowledge

Question 5

doxa

Answer 5

belief/opinion

Question 6

terministic screens

Answer 6

Burke’s phrase for a screen composed of terms through which humans perceive the world, and that direct attention away from some interpretations and toward others

Question 7

paideia

Answer 7

a systematic liberal arts education

Question 8

nomos

Answer 8

or rule by citizenery

Question 9

dialetic

Answer 9

a type of discourse designed to establish truth through the systemic critique of opposing arguments

Question 10

dramatism

Answer 10

a language is primarily about action, not definition. to understand human relations one must analyze the symbolic action.

Question 11

physis (“phoosis”

Answer 11

meaning nature

Question 12

Ideograph

Answer 12

virtue word is a word frequently used in political discourse that uses an abstract concept to develop support for political positions.

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

or the ethical appeal, means to convice an audience of the author’s credibility or character. From Greek word for “character”. word “ethic” is derived from Ethos.

Question 14

logos

Answer 14

the appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason. Logos is the Greek word for “word”, however the true definition goes beyond that “the word or that by which the inward thought is expressed” the word “logic” is derived from logos.

Question 15

Symbol

Answer 15

the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

Question 16

ideology

Answer 16

a system of ideas, especially on the forms the basis of economics or political theory and policy

Question 17

hegemony

Answer 17

leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

Question 18

pathos

Answer 18

the emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. Pathos is the Greek work for both “suffering” and “experience”. The word “sympathy” and “pathetic” is derived from pathos.

Question 19

Aristotle definition on Rhetoric

Answer 19

ability to discover in any given case. The available means of persuasion.