Thursday, April 26, 2012

Study Guide 1, my questions and answers


1.       What are the five Cannons of Rhetoric? 
2. What does the word Cannon mean? 
3. The brain is divided into a left and right side. Which side is the source of creativity? 
4. What is the difference between style and delivery? 
5. What are four types of organizational patterns mentioned in class to arrange or organize your ideas in a speech? 
6. Of the five Cannons, which one does not seems as necessary in modern world? 
7. Style concerns degrees of formality. How do you know how formal you should be when composing a speech?

2.       List and define the three classical proofs. 
2. How does a speaker develop or use each of the proofs? Give examples how how a speaker might develop each of the three. 
3. Who developed the Classical Proofs and in what book did they first appear? 
4. An argument basically has two parts. The first part is the claim that is being proposed. What is the other necessary part that makes the claim into an argument?





Study Guide Answers 11-20

11.  Invention. Arrangement. Style. Memory. Delivery.
12. accepted, chosen as the best
13. Right side, left side is more logic
14. Style is more non verbal. Delivery is more verbal
15. Introduction, Thesis, Body/Support, Conclusion.
16.  Invention because its common sense to find the available means of persuasion
17. It depends on the demographic, location, time, day.  Know your audience and adapt with them.
18. LOGOS-  Source of the persuasion for logos is in the speech
            Good Reason and Evidence
       ETHOS- Source of persuasion for the ethos is in the speaker.
            Credibility, trustworthy, considerate
       PATHOS- source of persuasion for pathos comes from the audience.
            Emotion, passion, shared feelings.

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20. Aristotle- The Rhetoric

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