“It frequently occurs, in fact, that orators in a law court have greater difficulty with a case which is based on truth, but does not seem so, than with a case that is false but plausible” (Vico 13). Do you…
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Medieval and Renaissance Class Questions
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Hey Everyone! Sorry it took me a few days– was working all weekend, but finally got something down. I had plenty of questions after the reading, but I’m honestly more curious to see what you have to say than to…
Versions of Enthymeme
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I had to write out what enthymeme meant since it was used with the word syllogism. Try saying those two words ten times without stuttering! Reading how they relate to one another was a reading tongue twister, but my impression…
The Art of Rhetoric
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Gorgias tries to defend his ideas on what rhetoric stands for and tries to define the term to Socrates. Socrates allows Gorgias to hang himself with his definition of the term and Socrates pokes holes into Gorgias ideas. SOCRATES:…
Vico Commentary
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This chapter begins with a chastisement of the thoughts of Francis Bacon, who according to Vico acted like a “potentate of [a] mighty empire” that upon reaching the highest ranking available lost all sense of reason and practicality in a…
Commentary – Week Three
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Reading Response – Week 3 Xing Lu and Lu Xie have given useful insights on Chinese Rhetoric. Both the writers focused on translation, hermeneutics and also elaborating on a Western approach to Chinese rhetoric. Hermeneutics is the translation of historical…
Change
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Tina Bell English 5001 2 April 2009 Commentary Week 7 Our lives, our world is becoming more global with every passing day. Technology has given us avenues of connection we could only dream of before today, and every day brings…
Commentary 3 & Commentary 4 5001
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“Language Diversity in Teacher Education” Growing up, I was the victim of an ‘old school’ English teacher mother. To this day, any time I utter something that is less than perfect American English I can see her right eye twitch…
Mid-term Responses
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Dawn Hamilton Mid-term Questions: Set A: The relationship between the study of rhetoric and the development of virtue or an ethical sense has been debated since classical times. A3. In writing classes today, how might a perception that studying…
Commentary #2 A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
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In the chapter from A Rhetoric of Motives, author Kenneth Burke establishes that rhetoric serves a “realistic function” (Burke 43). He argues that rhetoric serves a purpose in our language–it has a job. Then, as a recurring theme in our…