Aristotle ancient Greek theorist .(484-322 BCE)

Rhetoric is the faculty (dunamis) of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.-Aristotle, Rhetoric

Deliberative Oratory:Epideictic Oratory:Forensic Oratory:

Deliberative Oratory: used to make an argument for making a policy (calling for some sort of action. It is always something that has not happened yet).

Epideictic Oratory: it deals with praise or blame. Defining for us as a community what is virtue and vice. ( they can be about issues, institution, mostly about people. It deals with the present)

Forensic Oratory: wrong actions. It deals with the past, rather than arguing about the future good of the city-state.

Logo: the Logic of sound arguments

Pathos: the psychology of emotion

Ethos: the sociology of good character