Exercise 1

Emotions In Rhetoric

INSTRUCTIONS:  Be sure to read over Rhetoric 2.1-11 carefully before doing this exercise.

For each of the emotions listed below, describe the following:

(1) In what circumstances it might be useful for a speaker to attempt to arouse the specific emotion?

(2) What means he might use to arouse the emotion in an audience?

THE EMOTIONS

ANGER  (2.2)

CALMNESS (2.3)

FRIENDLY FEEING (2.4)

FEAR AND CONFIDENCE  (2.5)

SHAME (2.6)

PITY  (2.8)

INDIGNATION  (2.9)

JEALOUSY  (2.11)