Exam 8: Enlightenment Rhetoric

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Rhetorical movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that emphasized considerations of style in rhetoric.

Whatley's concepts of presumption and __________________, which required the accuser to create sufficient doubt about the accused individual's innocence, can be seen in our modern day judicial system.

Provide the term for the following definitions: -The responsibility to bring a case against the status quo sufficient to challenge its enjoyment of presumption.

What negative effects did Thomas Sheridan associate with the decline in British eloquence?

Which of the following is not one of the psychological faculties George Campbell borrows from Bacon and Locke to shape his view of rhetoric and psychology?

Which of the following was the term Vico used that meant "rhetorical wordplay or wit" and that he believed was key to the capacity for discovering metaphors?

___________________ was a mid-seventeenth century English rhetorician who was not satisfied to write devotional literature or recipe books, had a "natural" or "wild" writing style, and is seen as a transitional figure between the Renaissance Humanists and the Enlightenment period.

What social forces compelled British people to seek education in rhetoric during the eighteenth century?

Identify the negative effects that Thomas Sheridan associated with the decline in British eloquence during the eighteenth century. What movement did Sheridan help to initiate to counteract these effects?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -The rhetorical device or trope in which the part substitutes for the whole.

What theory of psychology influenced George Campbell's theory of rhetoric? How was this influence revealed in Campbell's theory?

Enlightenment rhetorical theory marked a turn away from traditional concerns such as memory and invention systems, and toward aesthetic matters such as style and good delivery.

The elocutionary movement of the eighteenth century offered training in oratorical delivery as a means of personal refinement and success. Even though this particular idea may be foreign to contemporary education, is an ability to speak effectively still a path to personal success or social status?

Which of the following rhetoricians created a theory of persuasion that emphasized using reason and arguments to convince an audience, and to stir passion and emotions in order to get that audience to act?

Vico argued that myth-in its capacity to organize our experience-was a rational form of discourse and the foundation of logos or argument. What stories told today might have the organizational or ordering status of myth?

What was Maria Edgeworth's response to prominent Enlightenment rhetorical theories?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -In Kames and Blair, a developed appreciation of aesthetic experiences.

Provide the term for the following definitions: -A "pre-occupation of the ground," in Whately's terms. An idea occupies its place as reasonable or acceptable until adequately challenged.

What is your reaction to Maria Edgeworth using fiction to teach moral lessons?

How does the belletristic movement represent an expansion of the boundaries of rhetoric? Identify two writers connected with the movement.