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Rhetoric assessment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Political | Urges us to do or not to do something Expediency/harm |
| Forensic | Attacks or defends Justice/injustice |
| Ceremonial | Praises or censures Honor/dishonor |
| Rhetoric | The art of identifying the avilible means of persuasion |
| Counterpart of rhetoric | Dialectic |
| Dialectic | Purely logical argument through syllogisms |
| Syllogism | Logical argument with a premise and a conclusion |
| A truncated syllogism | One premise is omitted (glossed over/implied) |
| Another name for a truncated syllogism | Enthymeme |
| Panderor | Someone who misuses rhetoric |
| 3 elements of speech making | Speaker, subject, and person addressed |
| Proposition | Plan or assertion that something will happen (Greatness & smallness) (Possible & impossible) |