The five canons: ![[basic list of the five canons of rhetoric]] A good way to remember these is that they're simply the steps you go through to produce a speech. - First you ***invent*** or come up with your arguments. - Then you ***arrange*** them in the right order. - Then you ***style*** them. - Then you ***memorize*** your speech. - Then you ***deliver*** it. In practice, of course, the process is much messier.