ENG 388 Unit 3

Cicero

De Oratore, De Inventione

Quintilian

Institutes of/on Oratory

St. Augustine

On Christian Doctrine

styles for Cicero

Plain/Low, Moderate/Middle, Grand/High

St. Augustine style

Subdued, Temperate, Grand/Majestic

stasis theory

• Stasis is translated as "stance" means to explore an idea with three questions: does X exist? what is X called? what is the nature of X (used in law to get to the truth) 

• Hermagoras of Temnos drew from Aristotle to develop the concept of Stasis, which Aristotle touched on just briefly in On Rhetoric
  
  

  • FACT | Did the defendant commit the act?

  • Definition | What did the defendant do?

  • Quality | Was the defendant’s actions just or unjust (justified or unjustified)?

Jurisdiction | What is the proper forum for determining the issue?

The Canons of Rhetoric (MAIDS)

Memory, Arrangement, Invention, Delivery and Style

The Good Man Speaking Well Theory

The Progymnasmata (Quintilian)

Before students could engage in oratory they were given a sequence of written exercises called the

Perspicuity

clarity of language

Ars Dictaminis

an epistolary art and adaptation of Cicero to the problem of letter writing.  Here the greeting and salutation are invented

Ars Poetria

Grammar or the rhetoric of verse writing--the correct usage of grammar, language, spelling, and attention to literary analysis.  Grammar paved the way for rhetoric

Ars Praedicandi

Sermons.  A thematic sermon appears in early 13th century.  Here Christ put forth that the masses should spread his word through speech

Faculty Psychology

memory, reason, appetite, imagination, will

Medieval Rhetoric (400-1400)

Renaissance Rhetoric (1400-1600)

plain/low style

esteemed wise because of its clarity, adroitness, , allowing clarity of subject matter to come through--also called an "attic" style

moderate/middle style

charming or pleasing

grand/high style

also called "asian" style