Quote:
“One improves one’s thinking by doing the analytic and synthetic groundwork for speaking, and one’s speaking cannot be truly good, cannot communicate knowledge, unless it is informed by careful thinking. The rhetor should also apply analysis and synthesist the subject of rhetoric itself, but not for such useless purposes as cataloging the parts of a speech. Rather he should catalog the kinds of human soul so that he can adapt his discourse to whomever he addresses.”
“One improves one’s thinking by doing the analytic and synthetic groundwork for speaking, and one’s speaking cannot be truly good, cannot communicate knowledge, unless it is informed by careful thinking. The rhetor should also apply analysis and synthesist the subject of rhetoric itself, but not for such useless purposes as cataloging the parts of a speech. Rather he should catalog the kinds of human soul so that he can adapt his discourse to whomever he addresses.”
Question: do you believe rhetoric is most often
used to be persuasive and solicitous or elicit and descriptive about the
news in the media?
I believe that rhetoric is most often used to be persuasive. For example, we hear rhetoric most from politicians who run our United States. These politicians use rhetoric in order to secure votes from people. They use promising words, outstanding charisma, and can persuasively work their way into office, using rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think in the media rhetoric is used to persuade certain audiences. Just watching the news the past year it seemed like each news channel had different tactics of rhetoric they were using to persuade their viewers to agree with their view points.
ReplyDeleteI believe that rhetoric is most often used today to push across a point and to be persuasive, especially in politics. Candidates must persuade potential future voters that they are the right man/woman for the job. On the other hand, politicians often abuse their rhetorical power by pushing false narratives, and urging the public to go in a certain way on an issue without knowing all of the facts.
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