Week 1-3

Question 1

Define “Rhetoric” (Corbett)

Answer 1

Tthe art or discipline, spoken or written, pertaining to use of discourse that is used to inform or persuade (or motivate)

Question 2

Define “Rhetoric” according to Don Clark

Answer 2

The art of discourse, teaching students to think well and live well while teaching them to SPEAK well

Question 3

(Electra, Sophocles 414 BC)

Answer 3

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong

Question 4

Theory of Man

Answer 4

Theory of Man is no less than theory of speaking creature

Question 5

Define “Rhetoric” (McWhorter)

Answer 5

FIND

Question 6

Rhetoric 1

Answer 6

Positive, Moral View

Question 7

Rhetoric 2

Answer 7

Neutral View (Descriptive)

Question 8

Rhetoric 3

Answer 8

Negative, Critical View

Question 9

Rhetoric can be…
1.
2.
3.

Answer 9

1. Invitational (audience oriented)
2. Intentional (spkr oriented)
3. Symbolic (message is central)

Question 10

Rhet. 1 Definitions

1. Quintilian (would argue that Hitler was therefore NOT a good speaker)
2. Richard Weaver
3. Greg Spencer

Answer 10

1. a good man speaking well
2. giving effectiveness to the truth
3. loving appropriately through speech

Question 11

Rhet. 2 Definitions

1. Corbett
2. Kenneth Burke
3. Aristotle **

Answer 11

1. the art or discipline that deals with the use of discourse, either spoken or written, to inform or persuade or move an audience
2. the use of language as a symbolic means of persuasion in a given situation
3. the faculty of discovering all of the available means of persuasion in a given situation

Question 12

Rhet. 3 Definitions

1. Plato
2. John Locke
3. Immanuel Kant

Answer 12

1. a flattery and of an ignoble sort, because it aims at pleasure without any thought of the best
2. a powerful instrument of error and deceit
3. the art of playing for one’s own purpose upon the weakness of men

Question 13

Name and explain the most common form of persuasion

Answer 13

The most common, ubiquitous form of persuasion discourse (rhetoric) in our society today is advertising

Question 14

What type of discourse can be found in The Odyssey?

Answer 14

Deliberative discourse

Question 15

1) Name and 2) Define the 3 Kinds of Oratory

Answer 15

1)
A. Deliberative
2)
A. Concerned with future times (the means used are exhortation and dissuasion)

is concerned with future time (the means are used are exhortation and dissuasion) and that the special topics most prominent are worthy and worthless, or advantageous and injurious

Question 16

What do all definitions of rhetoric have in common?

Answer 16

implication of manipulation of words

Question 17

Name and explain the 4 Forms of Discourse

Answer 17

1. ) Argumentation
   
   2. ) Exposition
   3. ) Description
   4. ) Narration