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- kairos
Like time, place is an essential aspect of general circumstances necessary
to be considered. Settings constrain how and what a speaker says.
- topics
of invention or "commonplaces."
These are the mainstay of rhetorical invention.
- Progymnasmata exercise: commonplace
- A short, pithy, saying—snonymous with adage,
apothegm, gnome,
maxim, paroemia,
proverb, or sententia.
- branches
of oratory
According to Aristotle Greek oratory was categorized according to three
specific kinds of occasions, each of which he associated with a given
place (a law court, a legislative assembly, a ceremony).
- Progymnasmata: description,
encomium, vituperation.
For each of these basic rhetorical exercises "place" was a
suggested subject matter to be described, praised, or blamed.
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