Exam 2 Review CMN 310 (100 Points Total)
NOTE: Only material in bold will be on this Exam.
Terms: Be able to accurately define these terms according to class lectures.
Agon
Narrative
Dialectic
Polis
Oikos
Sophist
Dissoi Logoi
Skepticism
Relativism
Humanism
Dunamis
Technê
Topoi
Pnyx
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Epideictic
Forensic
Deliberative
Paideia
Prudence
Kairos
Aretê
Hellenism
traditio*
Loci
Sapientia
Eloquentia
Res publica
Five Canons: (invention,
arrangement, style,
memory, delivery).
Vita activa
Vita contemplativa
T
Pax Romana
Roman Empire
Autocracy
Declamation
“the good man
speaking well”
“Decline of
rhetoric”
Rhetoric as a
school-art
Hymns to logos
Civitas
Saeculum
libido dominandi
Universitas
Scholasticism
ars praedicandi
ars dictaminis
Trivium
Courtier
Sprezzatura
Early-Modernity
Renaissance
ad fontes
Humanitas
Poesis
Copia
Vernacular
Figures: Know the significance of these figures in the history of rhetoric, including their
dates and locations, their view or understanding of the nature of rhetoric, their major
ideas, and their conceptual relationship to each other.
Gorgias
Cicero
Christine de Pizan
Protagoras
Quintilian
Erasmus
Socrates
Augustine
Plato
Castiglione
Aristotle
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*Including three traditions of rhetoric teaching in the Hellenistic world.
PART ONE of the Exam will consist of “fill in the blank” questions using a word bank.
You will get 10 fill-in-the blank questions, worth 4 points each, for a total of 40 points.
Words in the word bank will be drawn from the “Terms” and “Figures” lists above, you
will only use a word/name once, and there will be more words in the word bank than
there will be questions.
PART TWO of the Exam will be multiple-choice based on the “Terms” and “Figures”
lists above. There will be 10 multiple-choice questions, worth 3 points each, for a total of
30 points.
PART THREE of the Exam will be short answer. Be prepared to answer three of the
following questions in a 7-10 sentence paragraph. Answers should cover all the important
points stressed in lectures. Each question will be worth 10 points, for a total of 30 points.
1) What was Hellenism? What brought it about?
2) Describe Cicero’s “ideal orator.”
3) What did Quintilian mean when he called rhetoric an “active art” and why was it
significant in his historical context?
4) After his conversion, Augustine reconceptualized the nature and purpose of
rhetoric both for the church and the state. What were the major features of his
reconceptualization?
5) Compare and contrast Castiglione’s concept of sprezzatura with Erasmus’s
concept of copia.
6) One slogan in the Renaissance was “ad fontes!” Why was this not just another
attempt to get us to abandon the contemporary world and go back to the days of
old?