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DECLAMATION. Prepared by : Shermie Grace M. Forteza. DECLAMATION. Is the recitation of a poem from memory. Is a verbal expression. HISTORY OF DECLAMATION. It was invented by the Greeks, who brought it to Rome and the Roman world generally. Controversia.
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DECLAMATION Prepared by : Shermie Grace M. Forteza
DECLAMATION • Is the recitation of a poem from memory • Is a verbal expression
HISTORY OF DECLAMATION
It was invented by the Greeks, who brought it to Rome and the Roman world generally.
Controversia a speech in character on one side of a fictional low case
Suasoria a deliberative speech advising a course of action in a historical, pseudo-historical, or mythological situation
The sophists of the 5th century B.C regarded it as their principal task to teach rhetoric
Antiphon’s Tetralogies • arranged in speeches for and against, exemplify techniques of argument
Gorgia’sPalamedes • displays a clear articulation that marks off parts of the speech and stages in the argument and is plainly intended to train the student in systematic exposition.
Aechines • introduced the used of stock characters, poor man and rich man, hero and tyrant
The speaker, whether pupil or rhetor, would take one side or the other, sometimes playing the part of an advocate, usually that of a character in the case
Attention was paid to the articulation of the speech and to the forgoing of a persuasive argument.
Stasis system • enabled a speaker to establish the type of the case and draw on a check-list of topics appropriate to that type with their associated arguments.
Seneca he is most interested in epigram and the clever slanting of a case, not in the technicalities of the stasis system or the elaboration of a complex argument
Quintillian • his book is a hand book for the declaimer as well as the orator.
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