Rhetoric

There are five steps to rhetoric.

1) Inventio – ( Heuresis in greek)
The search and discovery of arguments by reference to topic or categories:
Cause and effect
Similarity or difference
The possible vs. the impossible
The authority of precedents.

2) Disputio – ( Taxis )
The method of organizing one`s material:
Exordium or the introduction.
Narratio or a clear statement of the subject.
Confirmatio or an effective organization of the topics.

3) Elocutio – ( Lexis )
There are 3 main styles:
Delectare or high
Movere or middle
Docere or low and plain.

4) Memoria –
How to memorize speeches through word- association or association with ideas or physical objects.

5) Pronuntiatio – ( Hypocrisis )
is concerned with delivery.
Voice modulation and rhythm and suitable gestures.

Remember language is a strictly human tool first used to express practical situations, like pain, pleasure or survival. Yes animals and plants may have language but they do not have grammar. However linguistic growth is not logical or grammatical. It is a product of forces of change by the sociological, historical, geographical and ethnological conditions that shaped it.