CHAPTER 10 Arrangement: Getting it Together

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CHAPTER 10Arrangement Getting it Together

• By Kanani Naauao
• English 307
• October 12, 2005

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Two Processes of Arrangement

• Selecting arguments to be used
• Arranging them in an order that is clear and
  persuasive

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Six Parts of Discourse

• Exordium Introduction vs. Insinuation
• Narrative
• Partition
• Confirmation
• Refutation
• Peroration (Conclusion)

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Exordium Introduction vs. Insinuation

• There are 5 different cases the Rhetor may
  encounter
• Honorable
• Difficult
• Mean
• Ambiguous
• Obscure

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Exordium Introduction vs. InsinuationCases

• Honorable
• Has immediate support from the audience
• Difficult
• Audience is unsympathetic to rhetor or to issues
• Mean
• Audience regards the rhetor or the issue as
  unimportant or uninteresting

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Exordium Introduction vs. InsinuationCases

• Ambiguous
• Audience is unsure about what is at issue or
  issue is partly honorable and partly difficult
• Obscure
• Issue is too difficult for audience to
  understand, because they are uninformed or
  because it is complex

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Exordium Introduction vs. Insinuation

• Introduction
• To prepare our audience in such a way that
  theyll be disposed to lend a ready ear to the
  rest of the speech (Quintilian)
• To make clear what is the end (telos) of the
  discourse (Aristotle)
• May be used in mean, ambiguous and obscure cases

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Exordium Introduction vs. Insinuation

• Insinuation
• Hostile audience ? admit difference of opinion
• Unsavory issue ? admit it
• Tired audience ? promise to make it short

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Narrative

• States the issue as clearly simply as possible
• Clear, concise, and brief
• Definitive, value, and procedure narratives
• Background information/History

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Partition

• Identifies the issues in dispute
• List the arguments to be used in the order they
  appear
• Acknowledgement of issues
• Agreement of definitions
• Issues of value involved in discussion
• Procedures to make change

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Confirmation

• Elaborates on arguments in support of the
  rhetors position
• Confirms/validates material given in Narrative
  Partition
• Uses the strategies previously discussed (e.g.
  kairos, logos, ethos, pathos)

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Refutation

• Possible arguments against the rhetors position
  are addressed
• Possible arguments against the rhetor are
  addressed

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Peroration (Conclusion)

• Clear and Brief!
• Review of issues in partition, briefly recall how
  each was supported