What is Rhetoric? - Arvin High School
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Building our Own definitions
You need to convince one of your parents to allow you to do
something they normally would NEVER let you do. Take a
few minutes to jot down some strategies. What would you
try first? If that didn’t work what would be your back up?
Literature
A vehicle of communication
A means of interaction between the writer and the
audience.
Basic theory of all rhetoric:
If there is a message and no messenger or no one to read
or hear the message there is no communication.
Rhetorical analysis helps to give us order and to
understand what we are reading
Aristotle
All available means of persuasion
Finding
Cataloguing
Describing
Eventually analyzing
The language used to accomplish those means
3 Branches to rhetoric
1. Invention: Generating ideas
2. style
3. arrangement
Rhetoric originally dealt with only the law, so it was
required to be arranged in a certain order:
1. Introduction
2. statement of facts
3. proof
4. discrediting the opponents viewpoints
5. conclusion
Persuasive discourse: manipulation of words
The process (how the writer got there) is more
important than the product.
persuasive= efffective
Identification is the heart of persuasion
Only when a reader identifies with the writer can
persuasion take place.
The role of the reader is SO important
Now, write your own definition for rhetoric. This
should be in your own words and don’t worry about
quoting anybody.
Then, write a definition for rhetorical criticism.