Rhetorics

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Sprezzatura

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quality of life and spontaneity in a speech.

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Mnemosyne

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the goddess of memory, mother of the muses.

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Simonides of Ceos

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first to teach the art of memory

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Method of loci

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Memory Palace

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Image of the Trinity in man according to St. Augustine in Confessions

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memory, understanding and will.

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Four precepts for memory according to Thomas Aquinas

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1. Invent a ‘convenient similitude ofthe things to be remembered.

2. Put them in a consideredorder.
3. Cleave with affection tothem (solitude/solicitude).
4. Meditate frequently on them.

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Rhetoric on the page affecting readability and ethos

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font, type size and pagination

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The question of delivery

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subdivided in control of the voice and control of physical gesture.

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Registers of voice

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Conversational Tone, Tone of Debate, Tone of Amplifiication

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Gyles Brandreth

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key expositor of the modern-day handbook tradition. 110 words a minute, notice your hands, avoid mannerisms.

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Bulwer

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catalogued and explained hand gestures; Chirologia/Chironomia. What nature provides, art can improve.

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Good delivery according to Ad Herennium

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ensures that what the orator is saying seems to come from the heart.

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First branch or Oratory

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Deliberative Rhetoric

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Deliberative Rhetoric

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Stirs its audience to action, associated with an orientation in the future.

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Cicero's 3 offices of oratory

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to teach (docere), to delight (delectare) and to move (movere).

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Aristotle's 2 lines of attack

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virtue or vice (right thing to do) and advantage of disadvantage (in their interest).

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Second branch of Oratory

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Judicial rhetoric (or forensic rhetoric)

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Judicial rhetoric (or forensic rhetoric)

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Deals with the past, rhetoric of conviction and exoneration. Questions: what happened, why did it happen, were the actors involved at fault in terms of the moral law or the law of the land.

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Aristotle's 2 topics of judicial rhetoric

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justice and injustice (and legality and illegality).

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The 4 stasis

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Conjectural, definitional, qualitive and translative stasis

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Conjectural stasis

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Question of fact

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Definitional stasis

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Question of definition

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Qualitive stasis

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questions of quality (legal or just?)

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Translative stasis

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questions of jurisdiction (right court?)