Which of the following is true?

Question

Which of the following is true? a) Cicero’s six-part arrangement structure is exordium (intro when you earn goodwill), narration (chronological statement of facts), partition (division of arguments), confirmation (presentation of proof), refutation (rebutting your opponent), and peroration (conclusion, maybe emotional). b) Forensic rhetoric deals with the past and blame, demonstrative with the present and values, and deliberative with the future and choices. c) Cicero’s five canons of persuasion are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. d) None e) all

Answer 1

e) all, this has to do with public speaking.

1. A is true because He believed a speech was broken into 6 parts;
2. the exordium (intro), the narratio (statement of facts) , the partition (partition), the confirmatio (proof of arguments),the refutatio(refutation), and the peroration (conclusion),
3. B is true because he mentioned public speaking is divided into three rhetoric; Deliberative (to persuade), Forensic (to judge) and demonstrative (to praise)
4. C is true because he spoke about the 5 cannons, or tenants are used for public speech
5. Invention is the process of coming up with material for a text, such as brainstorming, what ideas are you trying to convey
6. Arrangement is the process of deciding how to order the material in a text, such as prewriting, what goes first or last
7. style is the process of writing down the actual words used in the text, such as drafting and editing
8. memory is the process of committing a text to memory, this may look like proofreading befor publishing,
9. delivery is the process of presenting a text to an audience, such as publishing a text