Deliberative, Forensic, and Demonstrative Rhetoric

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Deliberative, Forensic, and Demonstrative Rhetoric

• Advanced Rhetorical Writing
• Matt Barton

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Deliberative

• Useful in politics.
• Concerned with the future
• Exhortation
• Exhortation Strongly urging someone to do
  something
• The goal is the expedient or advantageous.
• Uses examples as primary strategy.
• We should follow the example set by our
  forefathers in standing up to a dictator

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Deliberative Topics

• Five categories of politics
• Ways and means
• War and peace
• National defense
• Imports and exports
• Legislation
• Political orators must show that decisions will
  lead to happiness (eudemonia) and good.

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Governments

• orators must consider the type of government and
  customs, institutions, and interests of each
• Democracy Freedom
• Oligarchy Wealth
• Aristocracy Education and Institutions
• Monarchy Protection of Tyrant

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Forensic

• Useful in law courts.
• Concerned with the past
• Accusation and defense
• The goal is justice.
• Uses enthymemes as primary strategy.
• We found him standing over the corpse with a
  smoking gun in his hand and a guilty expression
  on his face.
• He committed a murder murder is a crime
  punishable by law.

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Forensic Topics

• The forensic speaker should understand the
  reasons why people do wrong.
• Wrongdoing When someone willfully violates the
  law (or inflicts harm).
• Seven causes of human action
• Chance, Nature, Compulsion (involuntary)
• Habit, reasoning, anger, appetite (voluntary)
• People seek the pleasant A movement by which
  the soul is consciously brought into its normal
  state of being Pain is its opposite.

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Law and Wrongdoing

• What are the two types of law?
• Natural law (unwritten)
• Written law (written or official)
• When do people do wrong?
• When they think that
• They wont get caught.
• They can get away with it.
• Itll be worth it.
• What makes one crime worse than another?

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Inartistic Proofs

• Forensic orators can use
• Laws
• Witnesses
• Contracts
• Tortures
• Oaths

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Demonstrative (epideictic)

• Useful in awards, commendations, various types of
  ceremonies.
• Concerned with present.
• Praise and censure
• Goal is honor (or dishonor)
• Uses amplification as primary strategy.

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Forms of Virtue

• Justice
• Courage
• Temperance
• Magnificence
• Ability to spend money wisely and fruitfully
• Magnanimity
• Doing good to others on a grand scale
• Liberality
• Gentleness
• Prudence
• Wisdom

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Demonstrative

• Concerned with virtue and vice
• Which virtues are the greatest?
• Uses amplification
• Compare deeds of the person to great deeds of
  historical or legendary figures
• Compare person directly to such figures.
• Abraham Lincoln fought to free the slaves George
  W. fights to free the citizens of Iraq.
• Sadaam Hussein is a greater threat to our
  freedom than Adolf Hitler ever was.

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Class Exercise

• Deliberative
• Compose a statement concerning whether SCSU
  students should pay for a campus subscription to
  turnitin.com plagiarism detection service
• Forensic
• Your friend has been accused of turning in a
  plagiarized paper (select one). First invent the
  details of the situation, then compose statements
  arguing both sides of the case.
• Demonstrative
• A good friend has recently been convicted of
  plagiarizing a paper. Furthermore, this friend
  was president of a fraternity and an honor
  student. You have been asked to make a speech
  concerning his character. Write a statement
  either praising or condemning him.