Cicero's Rhetoric: The History Of Public Speaking

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Mark Medina

Caffie Richer

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9/14/2016

The History of Public Speaking

Public Speaking has been around since the very first civilization and has been a skill that the human race has used but not always understood fully. It was more of a feeling or intuition than a set of points or rules to help someone who wanted to get their point across. But as people grew more academic public speaking turned from a feeling to an art form for getting your point or feeling across to a group of people.

Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher who wrote one of the most important book ever. He called the book "Rhetoric" and it was meant to help a speech giver inform, convince, and win over a audience. He purposed you write your speech using three rules, rule one was Ethos which translate into your credibility or believability. He believed having credibility or believability helped you convince your listeners that your point is the right one. Rule two was Logos which was the use of logic in the speech. He believed that a speech without out logic no matter how many points are in it was worthless. The last rule was Pathos which was the emotional appeal of your speech. Connecting with your listeners on …show more content…

Cicero's Rhetoric were the five parts of making giving a great speech. Step one was call Invention, it was the process of deciding on a topic for your speech. Step two was called the Arrangement, it consisted of organizing the different components of your argument in a way to achieve the greatest. Step three was called the Style, which was the manner in which the argument is delivered i.e.your correctness, clarity and your ornateness. Step four was called Memory, which were the methods the speaker used to remember their speech and make it memorable. Step five was Delivery, it consists of how you manipulate your pitch, volume, and gestures to engage the

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