On Rhetoric¶
Aristotle, & Kennedy, G. A. (1991). On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Oxford University Press.
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- Antithesis
- Aristotle treated antithesis in the Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia — the stylish, well-liked turns of phrase Kennedy renders "urbanities" — holding that contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, that the antithetical form "has the effect of a logical argument," and that the more antithetically a saying is put, the more taking it is
This sourceRhetoric III.9 on the antithetical period — contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, and the form 'has the effect of a logical argument' — together with III.11, where putting a saying briefly and antithetically is what makes it asteion, the stylish, well-liked turn of phrase Kennedy renders 'urbanity'.
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- Aristotle treated antithesis in the Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia — the stylish, well-liked turns of phrase Kennedy renders "urbanities" — holding that contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, that the antithetical form "has the effect of a logical argument," and that the more antithetically a saying is put, the more taking it is
- Epideictic Rhetoric
- Epideictic rhetoric is one of the three classical genres of public discourse in Aristotle's Rhetoric — alongside deliberative (oriented toward future decisions) and forensic (oriented toward past acts under judgment)
This sourceAristotle's Rhetoric sets out three species of rhetoric - deliberative, judicial and epideictic - with the deliberative speaker advising about future events and judicial judgment concerned with past facts. The Kennedy translation of the Rhetoric, whose contents list the Three Species of Rhetoric - Deliberative, Judicial, Epideictic - and whose treatment of praise runs on the noble (kalon) against the shameful (aiskhron) and defines praise as speech that makes clear great virtue.
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“3: The Three Species of Rhetoric: Deliberative, Judicial, Epideictic”
- Epideictic rhetoric is one of the three classical genres of public discourse in Aristotle's Rhetoric — alongside deliberative (oriented toward future decisions) and forensic (oriented toward past acts under judgment)
- Logos
- Logos is, in Aristotle's rhetoric, the mode of persuasion that works through the apparent rational structure of an argument: explicit premises, supplied evidence, inferential steps, internal coherence, and the look-and-feel of valid reasoning
This sourceAristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a), where the third mode of persuasion is defined as the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a), for the triad of artistic pisteis partitioned by the source of persuasive force; the 'register' gloss is the article's own, not Aristotle's. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.1-I.2, for the three pisteis and for the enthymeme as the rhetorical syllogism and the substance of rhetorical persuasion; the English phrase 'body of proof' is one translator's rendering and was not verified against the edition cited. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a35-b), where the example is called a rhetorical induction and the enthymeme a rhetorical syllogism.
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- Logos is, in Aristotle's rhetoric, the mode of persuasion that works through the apparent rational structure of an argument: explicit premises, supplied evidence, inferential steps, internal coherence, and the look-and-feel of valid reasoning
- Period Structure
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