HUM 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sentenced, Hoplite, Peloponnesian War
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Elenchus: the socratic method of eliciting truth by question and answer, especially as used to refute an argument. Simile: is a comparison of two different things. Catalogue: complete, systematized lists that serve various functions, often acting as important records of participation in combat, describing characters or plots, intensifying the presentation of an event, creating suspense, foreshadowing, and/or increasing our emotional involvement in a narrative. Invocation: are appeals to the divine for information. An appeal to the muses, who are the embodiment of cultural memory. Rhapsode: a person who recites epic poems, especially one of a group in ancient greece whose profession it was to recite the homeric poems from memory. Poets where considered teachers in the ancient greek society. As teachers, they were considered the wisest men and some of the most influential people in the society. Speech is the way that one is a ruler in a democracy. Its laws are not authorized by force.
