Rhetoric Readings Book 1

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Dr. Smith

Question 2

What is the negative conotation of rhetoric?

Answer 2

Empty and inflammatory. Brings about emotion without reason.

Question 3

Eloquence

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Isocrates

Question 5

How is rhetoric necessary?

Answer 5

builds community, shares beliefs, and shares action

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Dr. Smith

Question 7

Where else do we rhetorical communication?

Answer 7

Media

Question 8

The core of rhetorical education in

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imitation guided by principles

Question 9

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

Question 10

What was a progymnasmata

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Poor methods of education lead to

Answer 11

weak and/or unethical rhetoric

Question 12

Who wrote “Dialogue on Oratory”

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The Roman historian, Tacitus

Question 13

Tacitus lived when?

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between 56 and 120 AD

Question 14

Who was born 150 years before Tacitus

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Cicero

Question 15

Tacitus’s “Dialogue on Oratory” is focussed on

Answer 15

eloquence, or effective and beautiful communication

Question 16

When was aristotle’s lifetime

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384-322BC

Question 17

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

Question 18

What is aristotle’s most well known theory?

Answer 18

the 3 appeals

Question 19

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

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logic/argumentation

Question 20

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

Question 21

4 components to analyzing pathos

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

Question 22

stimulus

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rhetorical strategy

Question 23

object of the emotion

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where it is directed

Question 24

logos

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meaning and message as a whole

Question 25

claim

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the core or anchor of the argument, the conclusion

Question 26

data

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what supports the claim, the rationale

Question 27

arrangement

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the relations between claims

Question 28

who wrote: "Of Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Huamn"

Answer 28

Francis Bacon

Question 29

Who wrote "The Art of Rhetoric"

Answer 29

John Holmes

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Francis Bacon

Question 31

Francis Bacons' Faculty Psychology

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win the imagination from the affections part

Question 32

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"

Question 33

Francis Bacons said: The end of morality is to...

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Procure the affections to obey reason, not to invade it

Question 34

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

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second reason, not to oppress it

Question 35

Holmes said there are three things to invention of speaking:

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1. quickness 2. method/art 3. application

Question 36

What are all arguments founded?

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Reason, morals or the affections

Question 37

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

Question 38

What proofs belong to the inartificial argument?

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

Question 39

What do artificial proofs consist of

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1. Signs 2. Arguments 3. Examples

Question 40

What is disposition?

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the proper arrangement of the arguments or parts of an oration

Question 41

Exordium

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introduction

Question 42

Principium

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

Narration

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discourse informing the viewer of the matter in dispute

Question 45

The six parts of regular formal oration

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

Question 46

Proposition

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

Question 47

Confirmation

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part of a discourse that contains the arguments which are necessary

Question 48

The four classical virtues of style are

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1. Clarity 2. Correctness 3. Appropriateness 4. Distinction

Question 49

What are the six types of audiences?

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

Question 50

Invoked Audience

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

Question 51

Forum

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

Question 52

Stasis theory

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

Question 53

Three major stases

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1. Conjecture/Fact 2. Definition 3. Quality

Question 54

Kairos

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

Question 55

genre

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type of communication