COMS 330 MIDTERM DUFFY QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED.
, Athens - ANSWER- most progressive city-state
- searched for order through rational argument
- "istors" = the kings who then became the judges
Dracon - ANSWERgiven the job of writing laws
Solon - ANSWER- reformed dracon's code
- introduced first form of popular democracy
oral culture - ANSWERbefore writing - can be detrimental to memory (you think you
know something b/c you wrote it down)
Pericles - ANSWERwon election 30 years - most popular politician of his time, instituted
laws to protect artists/ craftsmen -- freedom
metics - ANSWERresident aliens - couldn't vote/jury but could live
Thucydides & The Plague of Athens - ANSWER- plague broke out with the
Peloponesian war
- appeals to ethos/pathos - ethos: established through proximity to event & him having
the disease himself, pathos: appeals to emotions with graphic explanations of
symptoms
- expressed purpose = talk about the plague
- unexpressed purpose = show what people are capable of - cowardice, selfishness, etc
3 genres of rhetoric - ANSWER1. Deliberative - matters of policy - future (democratic
society)
2. Forensic - justice/ injustice - past (democratic courts)
3. Epideictic/occasional - praise and blame - usually written (oral society)
Inartistic vs Invented proofs - ANSWERinartistic = found evidence
invented = ethos, pathos, logos
logos - ANSWERfor greeks all embracing, it is the order & principle of the universe -
discourse/ language
AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED.
, Athens - ANSWER- most progressive city-state
- searched for order through rational argument
- "istors" = the kings who then became the judges
Dracon - ANSWERgiven the job of writing laws
Solon - ANSWER- reformed dracon's code
- introduced first form of popular democracy
oral culture - ANSWERbefore writing - can be detrimental to memory (you think you
know something b/c you wrote it down)
Pericles - ANSWERwon election 30 years - most popular politician of his time, instituted
laws to protect artists/ craftsmen -- freedom
metics - ANSWERresident aliens - couldn't vote/jury but could live
Thucydides & The Plague of Athens - ANSWER- plague broke out with the
Peloponesian war
- appeals to ethos/pathos - ethos: established through proximity to event & him having
the disease himself, pathos: appeals to emotions with graphic explanations of
symptoms
- expressed purpose = talk about the plague
- unexpressed purpose = show what people are capable of - cowardice, selfishness, etc
3 genres of rhetoric - ANSWER1. Deliberative - matters of policy - future (democratic
society)
2. Forensic - justice/ injustice - past (democratic courts)
3. Epideictic/occasional - praise and blame - usually written (oral society)
Inartistic vs Invented proofs - ANSWERinartistic = found evidence
invented = ethos, pathos, logos
logos - ANSWERfor greeks all embracing, it is the order & principle of the universe -
discourse/ language
