Cicero’s elegant five-step method for constructing a speech:
This was proposed in the book in chapter one without much background information.
They are referred to elsewhere as the Five Canons of Rhetoric:
The Five Canons of Rhetoric serve as a guide to creating persuasive messages and arguments. These are invention (the process of developing arguments); arrangement (organizing the arguments for extreme effect); style (determining how to present the arguments); memory (the process of learning and memorizing the speech and persuasive messages), and delivery (the gestures, pronunciation, tone and pace used when presenting the persuasive arguments).
Wikipedia: The Five Canons of Rhetoric
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