Classicism Flashcards

Concern becomes more about life on earth than the afterlife. Writings are about science, ethics, and government, rather than religion.

Persuasion

Essays and speeches

<p>By using reason, people can manage themselves and their societies without depending on authorities and traditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social evils and superstitions could end and the general quality of life improved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedom of speech, freedom from arbitrary rulers, freedom to experiment, and freedom to question existing laws and institutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A movement that favors restraint, rationality, and the use of strict forms in literature, painting, architecture, and other arts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Based on reason, focused on science, ethics, and government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Classicism emphasizes the traditional and universal, placing value on reason, clarity, balance and order. Human nature and nature are governed by fixed, unchanging laws. Emphasizes reason over imagination, social over personal, and common over the individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>America was establishing itself worthy of standing beside Europe with its distinct new voice. The revolution inspired people to express themselves. Cities grew and population almost doubled.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Parallelism adds balance and rhythm to sentences giving ideas a smoother flow; also the repetition it employs cements an idea in the mind of the audience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It puts emphasis on a point, confirms an act or idea, creates cohesion, and arranges the words into something dramatic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A question asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They make the audience a partner in emotional statements and influence the response the speaker wants to get.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appeal to reasoning, logic, fact, and evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Demonstrates intelligence, good character, good will, and ethics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appeal to emotions such as fear, pride, or hate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tries to arouse audience through enargeia (visual), and honorific and pejorative language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appeal to a person's character, is he or she ethical? Do you share the same values?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Syllogism (deductive reasoning) and enthymemes (unstated premise).</p> Signup and view all the answers