CMST 2060 Chapter : Chapter 1
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In classical grease, rhetoric has been associated with the tradition of handbooks that outline the basic: never had ordinary people been trained in the art of rhetoric techniques of public speaking. Five canons of rhetoric are the five methods necessary to employ in creating a successful speech. Invention: aristotle defined rhetoric as an invention art. Invention refers to the act of finding something to say. It is invention that provides a public speaker with the resources of knowledge that gives a speech is substance and value. Invention tends to place the greatest emphasis on discovering what to say concerning the problematic situation at hand. Invention guides the speaker on what should be said rather than how. 2: arrangement: the capacity to put things in order. Startle your audience: challenge your audience, come full circle, visualize a positive future, visualize a negative future, ask a question, use a humorous anecdote, employ quotations, tell a story; moral lessons, main points.
