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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.
- Invention
- Arrangement
- Style
- Memory
- Delivery
- Audience
- Ethos
- Logos
- Pathos
- Epideictic Rhetoric
- Forensic Rhetoric
- Deliberative Rhetoric
- Figure
- Trope
- Topoi
- Decorum
- Doxa
- Enthymeme
- Mystification
- Conspiracy
- Jeremiad
- Motive
- Power
- Toulmin Argument (look under “Argument”)
- Epistemic Rhetoric
- Invitational Rhetoric
- Neo-Aristotelianism
- Dramatism
- Public Sphere