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Rhetorical Theory

Rhetoric: " ... the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." --- Aristotle




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Socrates
Socrates Trial 
Socratic Method

Plato
Plato's Academy
Axioms
Sophism

Aristotle

Aristotelian Method
The Rhetoric
Judicial Oratory
Epideictic Oratory
Deliberative Oratory
Persuasive Appeals

 

Classical Rhetorical Divisions

 Ad Herennium

Canons Of Rhetoric 

Invention
Inventio - Invention
Topoi
Ethos Pathos Logos
Enthymeme

Style
Elocutio
Figures of Speech

Memory
Memoria

Arrangement
Dispositio

Delivery
Pronuntiatio


Classical Roman Works

Cicero
De Inventione
De Oratore

Quintilian
Intitutio De Oratoria

Augustine
De Doctrina Christiana

 

Rhetorical Terms

Epistomology

Progymnasmata

Rhetorical Ability

Rhetorical Situation

Rhetorical Pedagogy

Rhetorical Scholars
Andocides
Antiphon
Aristotle
Sir Francis Bacon
Lloyd Bitzer
Hugh Blair
Kenneth Burke
George Campbell
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Demosthenes
Rene Descartes
Gorgias
Isocrates
Chaim Perelman
Plato
Protagoras
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Peter Ramus
I. A. Richards
Socrates 
Stephen Toulmin
Richard Whately
Thomas Wilson


 

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