Types, Divisions, and Figures of Rhetorical Speech

3 Março 2020, 10:00 • Fotini Hadjittofi

Greek Types, Parts, and Figures of Rhetorical Speech

Questions

What is rhetorical “propriety”? How is it achieved? What does persuasion have to do with the speaker’s moral character?

What is the role of the emotions in rhetoric according to Aristotle?
What kinds of texts does Aristotle use as practical illustrations of rhetorical and stylistic

devices? Does he distinguish between examples from prose and poetry?

Primary Text Aristotle, Rhetoric

Secondary Readings

Fortenbaugh, W. W. 1992. “Aristotle on Persuasion through Character”, Rhetorica 10: 207– 244.

Garver, E. 2017. “Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Theory and Practice”, in M. MacDonald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies: 133–141. Oxford.

Kennedy, G. 1963. The Art of Persuasion in Greece: 82–114. Princeton.

Roman Types, Divisions, and Figures of Rhetorical Speech

Questions

What is the purpose of each of the three main types of speech? In what ways does a forensic speech differ from a deliberative speech?

What is the purpose of each of the divisions of a deliberative speech?
What purposes do figures serve in oratory and poetry? Are their purposes different in poetry

from those of rhetoric?

Primary Text
Aristotle, Rhetorica 3.13–19

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.9.1–2, 4.1–4.2, 5.1–5.13
Handout
“Deliberative and Forensic Speeches: Divisions and Figures of Speech”

Discussion of Practical Presentation (due on 17 or 24 March)