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| The physical delivery or performance of a speech by means of voice, motion, facial expression, and gesture. |
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| A competitive struggle, especially in legal, political, and epideictic rhetoric. |
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| The repetition of initial consonants. |
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| Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. |
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| The section of the speech that furnishes proof for its claims. |
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| The repetition of terms in inverted order. |
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| The variety and abundance of words and ideas. |
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| The adaption of a composition to suit the subject matter, audience, and occasion. |
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| What is Deliberative Rhetoric? |
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| Political rhetoric designed to persuade for or against a future course of action; one of the three principal genres of ancient rhetoric. |
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| Arrangement, the art of distributing words and matter; the second task of the orator. |
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| The art of constructing opposing arguments on the same topic or question. |
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| Belief or opinion, often contrasted with knowledge. |
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| The vivid description of a person, place, object, or experience. |
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| Style, the art of expressing and embellishing ideas and arguments with appropriate language; the third of the five tasks (rhētoros erga) of the orator. |
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| What is Epideictic Rhetoric? |
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| Rhetoric designed for display and ceremonial purposes, often involving praise and blame; one of the three principal genres of rhetoric. |
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| Persuasive appeal based on the speaker’s character, especially as it is established in the speech. |
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| The first part of a classical oration, which announces the topic and secures the attention and good will of an audience. |
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| What is Forensic Rhetoric? |
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| Legal rhetoric concerned with accusing or defending a past act; for Aristotle, one of the three principal genres of ancient rhetoric. |
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| Invention, the art of discovering words and arguments, often by using the system of topoi. The first of the five tasks of rhetoric. |
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| Parallel clauses of equal length. |
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| The opportune moment for speech, determined by considering the exigencies of time, place, circumstances, audience, etc. |
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| A mode of persuasion that employs logic and reasoning. |
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| The art of memorizing and recalling words and subject matter for invention, style, and delivery, often employing visual images projected onto mental places. |
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| A figure of speech in which a name, word, or phrase is transferred to an object or action different from, but analogous to, that to which it is literally applicable. |
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| The section of a speech in which the orator provides a narrative overview of the facts of the case. |
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| The drawing of attention to something while pretending to pass it over. |
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| The section of a discourse that surveys the points to be made. |
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| Emotion; an appeal to the emotions, passions, and affects. |
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| The Greek goddess of persuasion. |
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| The conclusion of a speech. |
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| The part of a speech that refutes possible objections and counter-arguments. |
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| The art of effective expression or persuasion in speech, writing, and other media. |
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| The Sophists were the first theorists, practitioners, and teachers of the techne rhetorike, the art of rhetoric. The Sophists were itinerant lecturers and teachers of public speech. |
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| The basic categories and lines of argument (“places”) that help the orator discover, arrange, and memorize material for a speech. |
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| A word that turns from its literal meaning toward a figurative one, as with metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, etc. |
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| A leading through of different alternatives. An illusion of completeness. |
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| Likening to a drug, produces effects in body and mind. A psychotropic substance. |
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| Translated as lie. In text, it's better translated as fiction. Knowledge is made out of language. Artificial construct replaces the world. |
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| A line of argumentation aka cause and effect. A framework for arriving at knowledge. |
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| What are the 3 branches of Rhetoric? |
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1) Forensic
2) Deliberative rhetoric
3) Epideictic rhetoric |
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| What are the 5 arts of rhetoric? |
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1) Inventio
2) Dispositio
3) Elocutio
4) Memorizing
5) Actio |
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| To turn or turn away or a deviation from meaning. |
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| Statement of facts in legal case. |
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| The layout of speech and goal set. |
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| The notion of symbolic action. |
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| Doing things in a different way. |
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| The study of signs and signifying systems. |
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| The history of linguistics. |
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| The study of linguistics as a system. |
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| A sign is something that stands for something for somebody. |
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| Study of cause and effect relationships such as smoke and fire. |
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| Something that is subtle, connotative, and abstract. |
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| The study of animal communication systems. |
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| The colorurs of rhetoric. |
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| What is Terministic Screens? |
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| The selection, reflection, and deflection of reality. |
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