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.