Reading Exercise

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:

a) the nature (definition) of the particular emotion.

  • what is the sate of mind of  the person who feels the emotion?

b) the object of the emotion.

  • towards whom or what is the emotion felt?

c) cause of the emotion.

  •  why is the emotion felt and in what circumstances is it felt?

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)