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Amphiboly
ambiguous statement or question that cannot be answered in the terms asked (Have you stopped beating your wife yet?).
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Diegesis
narration, leading through.
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Dynamis
power, ability, capacity, faculty, potentiality.
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Enthymemes
rhetorical syllogism (three part deductive argument) that leads to a conclusion based on an unstated assumption (part of the argument is missing because it is assumed).
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Epideictic oratory
- praise-and-blame, ceremonial (does not evoke controversy). Stating
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Ethos
character of the speaker.
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Forensic
discussion about the past.
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Harmonia
change in pitch.
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Lexis
way of saying something.
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Litos
not plain, un-clear.
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Logos
logical, what is said, or style.
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Pathos
emotions of the audience.
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Phronesis
practical wisdom
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Pisteis
Second vital part of a speech.
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Prooemion
introduction, beginning.
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Prothesis
First vital part of a speech.
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Rhetoric
communication designed to persuade an audience to side with a particular argument or action, appeals to logos, pathos, or ethos.
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Syllogism
three part deductive argument (major premise, minor premise, and a conclusion).
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Taxis
arrangement or ordering of parts of the oration.
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Tykhe
benefit from chance which comes from rank via ancestry.
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