Exam 1 Study Guide: Chapters 1-5

The “Origins” of Rhetorical Theory

• Terminology: rhetorike, metis, apate, kairos, episteme

• Terminology: forensic, epideictic, deliberative

• Terminology: ethos, pathos, logos

• Aristotle on virtue ethics

• Orality and literacy in ancient Greece

• Democratic reforms of ancient Greece

• Susan Jarratt and Rory Ong, Aspasia

• Gorgias, The Encomium of Helen

• Isocrates, Against the Sophists

The “Common” and the “Good”

• Why were people “against the sophists” generally?

• Eudaimonia
  

• Aristotle, Rhetoric

• What did the sophists believe?

• Plato’s account of Rhetoric

• Plato, Allegory of the Cave

• Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

• W.E.B. Du Bois “the propaganda of history”

The Symbol

• The terministic screen

• Reading: Rhetoric of Dehumanization

• The dramatistic pentad

• Identification

• Rhetoric as symbolic action

• Defining “symbol”

• Defining “symbol”

• Defining “propaganda”

• Rhetoric as Symbolic action

The Sign

• Defining “sign”

• Defining “representation”

• Terminology of symbol and sign

• The Demagogue

• Reading: Definition of Man

• Terminology of symbol and sign

• “Change the language, change the beliefs”

• Kenneth Burke, “Definition of Man”

• Anne Norton, “The President as Sign