5 Canons of Rhetoric

The Five Canons of Rhetoric are a fantastic guide for improving your public speaking. The 5 Canons are: Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery. They can be used to make any presentation or speech better.
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00:00 Introduction
01:09 1. Invention
02:50 2. Arrangement
05:11 3. Style
07:08 4. Memory
08:46 5. Delivery

[@DC-sz9lt]

An easy and informative 11 minutes of viewing. Follow the advice and steps and no one should ever deliver a mediocre or poor presentation. Excellent information, I'm going to 'steal with pride' as the saying goes. Thanks Alex 😉

[@ambism]

All of them! I need to improve on all of them. 😂 but mostly memorizing and delivery. Thank you for the video 😊

[@sophieegiorgia2288]

Thank you for this great video and for sharing your knowledge! I preparing a presentation and I find your tips very useful.

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Great to hear, Sophie.

[@jamesdoescode]

Such a great video! I think I've been aware of all these aspects of speaking, though not consciously. These will be so helpful to keep in mind as I'm preparing new speeches and also evaluating how others give theirs. Thank you

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Alex, very good, very clear, very useful. Thank you for posting.

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[@ataullahilm]

Super duper amazing 😍. I'm gonna apply these Canons of Rhetoric. Really good points that are covered in this video and explained crisp , clear. 5 takeaway Principles 1. Invention 2. Arrangement 3. Style 4. Memory 5. Delivery Thanks, Alex Lyon ❤️

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[@jamesmarshel1723]

Probably should have doubled down on Cicero and included the memory techniques too😅 Awesome talk! Beautiful reintroduction to De oratore and De inventione !

[@alexanderlyon]

Yes, good stuff. I did a presentation on the memory techniques from his book when I was in graduate school.

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it is very good for up-to-date practices

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[@shukfahid]

Cicero probably did all this but he was able to go off the cuff. You could be huge if you followed that.

[@rionboyd]

New topic for me, so I need all five

[@alexanderlyon]

The topic is so old it's new for most of us!

[@rionboyd]

I’m not a public speaker, I believe the points apply to me as a teacher. I think I need to work most on invention- creating a good opening and designing the overall conversation. Thank you for sharing!

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[@kakistocracyusa]

Aristotles 5 Canons of Rhetoric.

[@alexanderlyon]

Aristotle wrote The Rhetoric (a book), but Cicero is credited with developing the 5 Canons.

[@kakistocracyusa]

@@alexanderlyon Aristotle wrote The Five Canons of Rhetoric a couple centuries before Cicero was born. I bought the translated book dedicated specifically to this work 40 years ago. I'm sure you can still find copies.

[@danno7466]

Speaking of rhetoric. When will you analyze a Trump speech.

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Putin’s puppet does nit make speeches, only throws poisoned propaganda.