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What is Rhetoric?

What is Rhetoric?. Building our Own definitions. Quickwrite. 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?.

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What is Rhetoric?

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  1. What is Rhetoric? Building our Own definitions

  2. Quickwrite 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?

  3. “By one’s choice of language one could conceal or reveal, magnify or minimize, simplify or complexify, elevate or degrade, link or divide…language also thinks for us: it shapes our experiences of the world, our communication of those experiences and their subsequent validation by others… the most important and most accessible facts about human beings are not found in what they do , or in their biologies and chemistries, but in their language, and in what they say about what they do.” Kenneth Burke

  4. What is rhetoric? • Literature • A vehicle of communication • A means of interaction between the writer and the audience. Message communication Speaker/writer Reader/listener

  5. What is rhetoric? • 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

  6. Aristotle • 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

  7. Edward P. J. Corbett • Persuasive discourse: manipulation of words • The process (how the writer got there) is more important than the product. • persuasive= efffective

  8. Kenneth Burke • 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

  9. What is rhetoric? • 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.

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