ENGL 354 Modern Rhetorical Theory
ENGL 354 Modern Rhetorical Theory

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Rhetorical Terms

Working with both Soucebook on Rhetoric and A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, make sure to read entries that are referenced in the entry you are assigned, so that you can more fully understand the context and background of your term.

A note for when we sign up, these topics get harder as you move down the list. If you put off your presentation to later in the semester, you will be choosing a more difficult topic.

  1. Invention
  2. Arrangement
  3. Style
  4. Memory
  5. Delivery
  6. Audience
  7. Ethos
  8. Logos
  9. Pathos
  10. Epideictic Rhetoric
  11. Forensic Rhetoric
  12. Deliberative Rhetoric
  13. Figure
  14. Trope
  15. Topoi
  16. Decorum
  17. Doxa
  18. Enthymeme
  19. Mystification
  20. Conspiracy
  21. Jeremiad
  22. Motive
  23. Power
  24. Toulmin Argument (look under “Argument”)
  25. Epistemic Rhetoric
  26. Invitational Rhetoric
  27. Neo-Aristotelianism
  28. Dramatism
  29. Public Sphere