Aristotle ancient Greek theorist.( BCE)
Rhetoric is the faculty (dunamis) of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. -Aristotle, Rhetoric
Deliberative Oratory: Epideictic Oratory: Forensic Oratory:
Deliberative Oratory: used to make an argument for making a policy (calling for some sort of action. It is always something that has not happened yet).
Epideictic Oratory: it deals with praise or blame. Defining for us as a community what is virtue and vice. ( they can be about issues, institution, mostly about people. It deals with the present)
Forensic Oratory: wrong actions. It deals with the past, rather than arguing about the future good of the city-state.
Logo: the Logic of sound arguments Pathos: the psychology of emotion Ethos: the sociology of good character