[New-Poetry] Anyone know this?

[Anny Ballardini]

I knew that Sam knew it...
funny that they do not mention refutatio here:

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rsgwynn1 at cs.com 
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Anyone know this?


  In a message dated 5/4/2007 2:11:56 PM Central Daylight Time, Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes: 

    From my brother:

    Since you seem to be into rhetoric, maybe you can answer something I've 
    asked many, including speech instructors and rhetoricians, and never 
    gotten an answer to. Is there a term for the technique or tendency to 
    address the implicit question or consideration in your listener's mind, 
    in the course of making a statement? This quality is very clear to me 
    when it's present or not present, and I'm wondering whether there's a 
    term for it.


  In a classical oration this would be the refutatio, the part that addresses possible objections to what the speaker has argued for earlier.  It's the kind of thing a salesman might use: "Now I know what you're thinking.  You're thinking you can't afford this product .  Well, let me show you . . . ."

  The parts of a classical oration are:

  Exordium         Introduction
  Narratio            A history of the question/problem being addressed
  Confimatio        The speaker's argument
  Refutatio          As above
  Peroratio         Conclusion



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