WorksheetsAll about rhetorics
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
True or False: Committing a speech to memory falls under Cicero's canon of Delivery.
True
False
The canon of composition that involves generating and developing arguments is:
Arrangement
Invention
Memory
Ethos
Aristotle’s rhetorical branch is political and is focused on the future, with the aim to establish advantage or disadvantage?
Epidiectic
Deliberative
Forensic
Logos
Which of Aristotle's rhetorical branches is focused on legal proceedings and judicial matters?
Forensic
Deliberative
Epideictic
Logos
(a) rhetoric is focused on the present and is used to praise, blame, or celebrate.
