In ancient Greece, “olive branch speaking” was a rhetorical technique in which rhetors held an olive branch while delivering their speech.

• True

• False

Which of Cicero’s five canons of composition is NOT included in the list?

• Invention

• Style

• Necromancy

• Memory

True: Deliberative rhetoric is oriented towards the future and concerned with persuading and dissuading:

• True

• False

The canon of composition that deals with arranging and structuring the speech is called:

• Arrangement

• Invention

• Memory

• Ethos

The branch of rhetoric concerned with decision-making about the past and aims to establish just or unjust is called:

• Forensic

• Deliberative

Cicero’s canon focused on the actual performance and presentation of the speech is known as:

• Style

• Invention

• Delivery

• Pathos

Epideictic rhetoric is oriented toward the past and aimed at blaming or praising.

• True

• False

The rhetorical branch that responds to current or recent events based on generating communion with an audience using praise or blame is known as:

• Forensic

• Deliberative

• Epideictic

• Arrangement

Cicero's canon dealing with language, figures of speech, and stylistic choices is called:

• Style

• Invention

• Delivery

• Pathos

Which of Aristotle's rhetorical branches is focused on the past and examining past actions based on what is just or unjust and with the purpose to accuse or defend.

• Forensic

• Deliberative

• Epidiectic

• Mythos