From what I’ve learned in the chapter rhetoric is about using tone, audience, genre, purpose, stance, context, medium and discussion to grab a persons attention and make your method of writing more enjoyable for the reader. The technical definition for Rhetoric is: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. The first part of this definition agrees with mine in that basically rhetorical writing is grabbing your reader's attention. The second part is interesting that, apparently you would use figures of speech to do this, which would make sense.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Definition of Rhetoric
Rhetoric, or thinking or acting rhetorically are all, about the same idea. To me rhetoric is being able to analyze your audience and craft a story or argument that fits well with that person's ideas. An essay that uses rhetoric correctly will grab a readers attention and take them along for quite the ride till the very end, It holds peoples attention and is enjoyable to read.
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I like how you pulled in the official definition for rhetoric, but you analyzed it and actually used rhetoric to think about what the definition really means.
ReplyDeleteI've got to agree with Riley. Something else I liked about your post is that you understand that your message should change so it agrees with your audience, something catches their eye and they come to understand their point.
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