SPEECH MAKING

The art of persuasive speaking or writing is called ____

• Miming

• Rhetoric

• Trickery

Schools where persuasive speaking was taught in ancient Greek were established by ____

• Terrorists

• Sophists

• Aristotles

Speaker or master orator is always known as ‘rhetor’. What’s the origin of the word ‘rhetor’?

• Latin

• French

• Greek

A man’s success and influence in ancient Greek depended on his ability to _______

• Fight as a gladiator

• Persuade people to vote him into power

• Buy a lot of slaves

Aristotle criticized the sophists because _____

• they did not emphasize truth in speech making

• they emphasized truth in speech making

• they specialized in buying slaves

Aristotle founded the Lyceum in what year?

• 334 BC

• 345 BC

• 360 BC

The Lyceum was a place to study ____

• Political debates

• Philosophical debates

• Economic debates

The moral character of the speaker, which makes him/her and whatever he/she says credible to the audience.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

The way the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience or the frame of mind the speaker puts the audience in.

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

The logic or convincing facts and evidence put forward by the speaker to convince the audience.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos