5 canons of rhetoric and the 3 genres of rhetoric

To begin with, when we talk about rhetoric, the first thing that came up in my mind is Ancient Rome and Greece. To be more precise, there were two “big names” that I must mention – they were Aristotle and Quintilian, who had greatly contributed to this study.
Firstly, I want to consider the 5 canons explained by Quintilian, which were meant for creation of effective speech – inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria and actio. In English they are generally known as invention, arrangement, style, memory, and lastly – delivery. …