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Question: Aristotle discusses the important aspects of a speech as requiring:logos (the argument should be solid), ethos (the speaker should be credible) and pathos (the audience should be made sympathetic). According to Aristotle, these are the pieces that make up a speech-be sure to take this into account, it's not bad advice for any sort of paper.If you need more comparanda, the links on Perseus should give you some useful examples from other speeches. Search for Roman orators like Ciceroor Quintilian, or Greek ones like Lysias, Demosthenes, or Andocides (Cicero and Quintilian also composed handbooks on how to write a speech)
Your mission is to analyze one of the Romans' speeches(such as the speeches of Cicero, or the imbedded speeches recorded in Livy or Sallust) and make an argument for why this speech was effective for the speaker.Explain how the speechwriter employs rhetoric to be convincing. You must quote the speech at least once.

Though I intend you to use the Roman sources from this week, you can write about a Greek one if you want, as long as it's not the same source you used for an earlier assignment.
Some things to possibly talk about (no need to cover all of them)
• Who is the intended audience? Is there a different intended audience at different points in the speech? The target audience does not have to be the people addressed!
• What is the occasion for the speech? (You may need to do a littlehistorical research here).
• What rhetorical devices are used? How does the author try to manipulate the audience?
• How does the author cut down potential or already-stated counterarguments?
• What is/arethe speakers' motive?
• How does the speakerpre-emptively discredit their opponent?

To make this argument effectively, you need to quote the speeches as evidence! But you do not want to simply drop a quote and walk off. The most interesting quotes are rarely as self-evident to the person reading the paper as they are to the writer. You need to introduce the quote in a way that shows what you want the reader to get from it, and follow it up with some statement of what you think is most important. Again, avoid ending paragraphs with quotations. It's not precisely wrong to do that, but when you do, you often imply rather than say what you mean.

Be sure to cite the speech you're reading or responding to. How does classical citation work? For ancient sources, we cite them as "Author, Work Name, Book#.Chapter#.Section# (Xenophon, Hellenika 1.1.23) Speeches, being shorter, have fewer subdivisions (Cicero, Pro Rabirio 2.1 generally means the first sentence of the second paragraph), and for authors with only one body of work, the title can be omitted. (e.g. Herodotus 6.1; Demosthenes 56.7). The resulting citation can be placed at the end of the sentence or as a footnote.For the most part, these citations are already provided for you, but let me know if you have trouble interpreting them.