Aristotle's Rhetoric

What person had a major influence on rhetoric?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Julius Caesar

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Who was Aristotle's teacher?

• Cecius

• Plato

• Aristotle was self taught

• Alexander the Great

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According to Aristotle, what are the components or characteristics of rhetoric?

• Public practice of countering the accuser to defend themselves using non-argumentative methods

• Focuses on persuasive information and is regarded as an art

• Utilizes arguments and proof but also the speaker's credibility and emotional attitude on a topic

• The rhetoric discipline has to acknowledge the audience is influenced by their emotions rather than rational knowledge on the topic

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Aristotle described rhetoric as the counterpart to dialectic. So, what would be some traits or focal points of the dialectic discipline?

• Referring to the private or academic practice of starting and maintaining an argument

• Focusing on reasoning and identifying valid and invalid arguments

• Using argumentative methods with proof and evidence on the topic

• The discipline tries to argue the truth of a topic

• All of the above

True or False: Aristotelian rhetoric style is characterized as a neutral method used by people of moral and immoral characters

• True

• False

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What tactics must rhetorician’s, someone who understands persuasive arguments and can convince some individuals, exhibit while speaking to their audience? hint: 2 answers

• Play on the audience's emotions

• Rely solely on proven opinions by experts

• Argue the popular opinion of the audience

• Focuses on explaining the truth of a topic without persuading the audience

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Similar to the three modes of persuasion, Aristotle believed what three elements were essential to a persuasive argument?

• Ethos, Pathos, Logos

• Argument, Pen, Paper

• Speaker, Subject, Listener

• Proof, Work, Ideas

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How does the emotional disposition of the audience affect the argument itself?

• Causing the listener to agree no matter what

• Emotions modify one’s reactions and thoughts

• No effect is made

• Causing the listener to disagree no matter what

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What is an Enthymeme?

• Function of a proof or demonstration in the domain of public speech

• Should have the form of a deductive argument

• Set of sentences where several are premises with one conclusion

• Display the premise-conclusion structure of deductive arguments

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Which of the following uses logic that cannot be refuted?

• Wise men are just, since Socrates is just.

• He is ill, since he has fever./ She has given birth, since she produces milk.

• This man has fever, since he breathes rapidly.

• I can’t see you, you can’t see me.

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