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exordium, the speaker gives their main argument, and all relevant information.
* the statement of the case, or narratio. Quintilian explained that in the narratio "we shall for instance represent a person accused of theft as covetous, accused of adultery as lustful, accused of homicide as rash, or attribute the opposite qualities to these persons if we are defending them; further we must do the same with place, time and the like".
* a listing of the major tenets of the argument, or divisio (sometimes known as partitio). It has two

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