Skit/Activity: Do you Know the Classical Appeals? Or nah?
Reminder of the Classical Appeals
Logos: Logic used as a form of evidence to prove your point
Pathos: Appealing to the audience's emotional side to the audience
Ethos: The audience trusts the speakers credibility.
Scenario: Why you should/should not donate money to shelter dogs.
Cicero's Five Great Arts of Rhetoric
- Invention: The discovery and selection of ideas, themes, and lines of argument
- Arrangement: The placement of these ideas in appropriate order
- Style: The expression of these ideas in effective language
- Memory: The storage of these ideas in the mind for recall during speaking
- Delivery: The presentation of the ideas to an audience
Cicero
Classical Appeals
- Logos: Logic used as a form of evidence to prove your point
- Pathos: Appealing to the audience's emotional side to the audience
- Ethos: The audience trusts the speakers credibility.
- Introduction: This gains the audiences attention and makes a clear purpose for the speech
- Body: This provides the speakers message
- Conclusion: This goes over the main points and leads them to make a decision at the end
Aristotle's three forms of Public Address
- Forensic: Legal type (speeches that argue guilt and or innocence... i.e. Lawyers)
- Deliberative: Speeches that debate politics in a legislative setting( i.e. Congressional)
- Epideictic: Speeches that celebrate special occasions. (i.e. those "I propose a toast" things)
Public Speaking as a Social Art
- Public speaking is crucial to democracy
- Ancient Greeks counted on it
- First Amendment to the US Constitution has a free speech clause for a reason....speech is relevant!
- Greek academy included rhetoric.
- Rhetoric: The art of speaking effectively.
Social Benefits of Public Speaking
John Felton, Elli Murray, Leo Hargette, Chris Bennett