The order is the lesson

The sequence

Stories come before arguments. Arguments come before a decision. Skip around if you want, but the later exercises assume you have already praised, blamed, and taken a claim apart. The history sits beside the drills, and the cheat sheet is the test for each one.

1 to 4

Retell

A story with a lesson, then something that happened, then one person, then a saying people already repeat.

1. 1FablemythosTell a short story whose lesson arrives sideways.Open
2. 2NarrativediegemaPut events in an order someone else can follow.Open
3. 3AnecdotechreiaJudge one person from one incident, fairly.Open
4. 4ProverbgnomeChoose a saying, then choose who has to live with it.Open

5 to 10

Test

Take a claim apart, support a real part of one, press on a habit the public already has, then praise, blame, and compare.

1. 5RefutationanaskeueShow the one joint where a claim fails.Open
2. 6ConfirmationkataskeueSupport the part of a claim that actually holds.Open
3. 7Commonplacekoinos toposWork on a belief people already share.Open
4. 8EncomiumenkomionPraise one thing so specifically it cannot be swapped.Open
5. 9InvectivepsogosBlame one thing without losing the shape.Open
6. 10ComparisonsynkrisisHold two things to the same test.Open

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Decide

Speak as someone else, make a thing clear to a stranger, lay out both sides, and only then say what should be done.

1. 11CharacterizationethopoeiaWrite a speech in someone else’s mouth.Open
2. 12DescriptionekphrasisPut a thing in front of someone who was not there.Open
3. 13ThesisthesisLay out a real disagreement without joining it yet.Open
4. 14Lawnomou eisphoraPropose something someone could adopt or refuse.Open