Rhetorical Theories Test Terms

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Term: Isegoria

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A guarantee of the opportunity to speak freely in public assemblies

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Term: Polis

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Independent city state

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Term: Sophos

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Wise or skilled

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Term: Logographers

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Speechwriters

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Term: Dissoi Logoi

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Contradictory arguments

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Term:

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Inventing arguments for and against a proposition

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Term: Endoxa

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Premises that were widely believed or taken to be highly probable

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Term: Kairos

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A favorable situation or opportune moment ( closely related to the concept of dossoi logoi)

- Referred originally to momentary opportunities

- Also refers to situation and audience adaptation

- refers to the ability to maximize the moment

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Term: Epideixis

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A word describing a speech prepared for a special occasion

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Term: Heuristic

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Discourse's capacity for discovery of facts, insights, or self awareness.

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George Kennedy's definition of rhetoric

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“the energy inherent to emotion and thought, transmitted through a system of signs, including language, to others to influence their decisions or actions.”

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Definition of Rhetorical Theory

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“Rhetorical Theory is the systematic presentation of rhetoric’s principles, it’s various social functions, and how the art achieves its goals.”

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Characteristics of Rhetorical Discourse (6)

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Planned

Adapted to an audience

Shaped by human motives

Responsive to a situation

Persuasion-seeking

Concerned with contingent issues

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Term: Appeal

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Appeals are strategies of language that aim to elicit an emotion or engage the audience’s commitments.

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Term: Arrangement

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Arrangement refers to the planned ordering of a message to achieve the effect of persuasion, clarity, or beauty.

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Term: Aesthetics

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Elements which add, form, beauty, and force to symbolic expression

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Elements of Persuasion-Seeking (4As)

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Argument

Appeal

Arrangement

Aestetic

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Social Functions of Rhetoric

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Testing Ideas

Assisting Advocacy

Can Distribute Power

Discovering Facts

Shaping Knowledge

Building Community

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5 Chapter 1 terms to use in context

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Rhetoric

Aesthetics

Contingent Issues

Symbol

Ideology

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Checklist to Include:

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Outline with 3 main points

Define 5 textbook terms in context per chapter

A relevant example

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Contributions of Sophists as a whole (5)

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- Centrality of persuasion to civilized discourse

- Shaped the development of academia

- Relativity of truth

- Conventionality of law

- Rhetoric as the center of education

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Most influential Sophists

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Gorgias

Protagoras

Isocrates

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Gorgias (3)

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- Great early teacher of rhetoric

- 3 part formula of skepticism

- Emphasized style, ornament, and aural quality

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Protagoras (3)

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- Developed the underlying philosophy of rhetoric

- Divine beings are virtually unknowable by humans

- Practical approach to reasoning

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Isocrates (3)

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- Master of rhetoric

- Advocated for high moral standards

- Elevated rhetoric to a society-transforming construct

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Term: Arete

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Virtue

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Term: Demos

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The people, ordinary citizens

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Term: Dialectic

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Rigorous, critical questioning

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Term: Doxa

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Belief; mere opinion

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Term: Episteme

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True knowledge

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Term: Hedone

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Desire

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Term: Kolakeia

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Flattery

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Term: Pistis

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Mere Belief

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Term: Psychagogia

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Art of influencing the soul

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Term: Rhetorike

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an art concerned with words

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Term: Techne

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a true art or discipline