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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many common mistakes did Aristotle indicate were made in prose?

2. Based on Aristotle's views, how should any good speech be appropriate?

3. What shape was described in the example Aristotle provided for the use of description in an impressive speech?

4. Based on Aristotle's discussion of objections, what would be the purpose in making a similar appeal to an argument?

5. According to Aristotle, what should vivid descriptions always depict?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Aristotle's opinion of the paean rhythm in prose?

2. Why might an enthymeme have been more effective with a surprising conclusion?

3. What was the benefit of using actual facts, the first type of example?

4. How did Aristotle explain the different kinds of arguments used by the three types of rhetoric in Book II, Chapter 18?

5. How did Aristotle compare a simile and a metaphor in Book III, Chapter 4?

6. How might the antithesis sayings emphasize a particular point?

7. What were some of the ways Aristotle described what was and was not possible in rhetoric and oratory?

8. As the second type of example, what were the two forms of the invented facts?

9. What were some of the characteristics of a refutative enthymeme?

10. What would the a fortiori argument refer to in rhetoric?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Legal rhetoric was a main form of speech for courts and trials in Aristotle's time.

1) Describe the similarities and differences between the two types of law: the special and the general.

2) Explain Aristotle's definition of wrongdoing.

3) Analyze how both laws applied to wrongdoing and legal rhetoric.

Essay Topic 2

Define narration as it is used in rhetoric or in a speech, including an explanation of which forms of rhetoric were most likely to use narration and why, and the similarities and differences between narration in literature and narration in speaking.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the many aspects and traits of virtue and justice, their value in epideictic rhetoric, and the techniques that Aristotle described for applying them to epideictic speaking.

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