Canons of Rhetoric More rhetoric than youll ever

Canons of Rhetoric More rhetoric than you’ll ever want to know

Branches of Rhetoric • Judicial – primarily concerned with past events. Concerned with justice or injustice of an accusation. • Epideictic – speech or writing focused on praise and blame. • Deliberative – persuading an audience to act – to do something. It’s often about things to come.

5 (not nick) Canons • Invention – concerned with finding something to say (what is gonna be said). • Use topoi (relationships among ideas) to generate something to say. • • Arrangement – concerned with how ya order communication. • • To culture jam, a lotta times ya gotta imitate the style of the jammed. Memory – concerned with remembering communication, making communication memorable, and having the ability to “off the cuff. ” • • To culture jam, ya gotta recognize the order of the jammed. Style – concerned with how ya “say” or present what you communicate (words, art, images used, use of metaphors, and stuff like that). • • Cause/effect Past/future Similarities/differences To culture jam, ya gotta figure out how to make the jam memorable to an audience. Delivery – also concerned with how ya say or present your communication (gonna have an accent, gonna stand up straight, gonna use Twitter, gonna video, gonna be live – how ya gonna deliver the information? ) • To culture jam ya gotta figure out how you are gonna deliver your communication.

Some fun RHETORICAL terms that’ll make you sound smarter! • Anaphora - Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines. • Chiasmus (antimetabole) - Repetition of ideas in inverted order. • Paralipsis - Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. • Antithesis - Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas. • Procatalepsis - Refuting anticipated objections.