DAT101 Subjective writing & Rhetoric, argument and persuasion

These are some of the other things we have covered in the DAT101, during lectures.


Subjective writing

Define yourself in 3 words
Irresponsible, loud, friendly

Define you position in 3 words if china were to declare war on britian
Scared, angry, wimpy

5 lies i tell about myself

1. my feet are size 14, they arent, they're size 13, i just dont like the number 13
2. i can swim, No i cant, not at all, i just say that to avoid questions
3. i wake up at 7 am every day, massive lie there, only when i get woken up by somebody else is that the case
4. i can play drums. No i really cant not in any way i just like saying i can
5. I love hot food, im not brilliant with it, and i've never really had proper hot food, i just think it sounds impressive

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Rhetoric, argument and persuasion

Rhetoric
one of the 3 original liberal arts in western culture, alongside grammar and logic

Grammar is correct language use

logic is testing and inventing new knowledge through question and answer

Rehtoric is the proper presentation of ideas, it was taught by the ancient greeks and romans in the medieval and renaissance eras
now in modern times it is coming back into poularity

Important in public speaking and politics

Notable Rhetoricians

aristotle
Ethos, Pathos and Logos


Ethos: The way the personality and credibility of the person speaking may affect the audience to make them believeable
Pathos: emotional appeals to audiences judgement
Logos: use of reasoning to construct an argument

Although we wouldnt name these things the same way aristotle did, i think they are very much still in use today, and a particular example of this is with reality TV, whereby members of the public become attatched to partiipants in television shows, and then will either vote for them to stay on television for a longer amount of time, or to get rid of them, and all of this is based on how the participant presents themselves, and trying to appeal to the nation with a background story usually describing a upssetting upbringing or similar, so that the audience may feel emotionally inclined to support them.

Quintilian

5 canons how to make an argument
Invention: the process leading to an argument being made and perfected.
Arrangement: organised to have the greatest effect.
Style and presentation
Memory: the speaker recalling particular part of an argument in his speech
Delivery: the way it is delivered to engage the audience to the greatest level


Techniques of rhetoric

Contrasting points.
Lists of three: short and consise, but with enough information to give a good overview.
Combination of these two.
repetition: pressing a point to an audience more than once to keep in in their minds.
Alliteration.
Anthropamorphism.
Antithesis: words that may be contradicting, to create a balanced effect to the argument.
Climax: build up matters ending with the most important.
Hyperbole: Exaggerating a point to make it obvious that it is important.
Innuendo.
Irony.
Metaphore: Saying something is something else to add effect to the description, e.g. "Islands are jewels in the ocean", they are obviously not, but it references the beauty and perfection of a jewel and gives the island the same beauty.
Parallism.
Rhyme: appealing to the audience and a light hearted and catchy way of presenting something.
Oxymoron: two contradicting things combined e.g. "little big".
Simile: similar to metaphore, but rather than saying something IS, saying something is LIKE, e.g. "That house is like a palace".
Symbol.
Advocacy: short and consise points.