Week 3
Activity 1: Rhetoric
After reading Aristotle’s Rhetoric the following key points
of his speech were summarised as follows.
Rhetoric:
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Is a form of dialectic
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Includes
the modes of persuasion
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Persuasion is the only true element of the
rhetorical art.
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Rhetorical study showed persuasion is a sort of
demonstration (people are easily and or are fully persuaded when given a
demonstration).
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Demonstration is the most effective mode of
persuasion.
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Rhetoric is useful based on the following three
points:
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Things that are true prevail over their
opposites.
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Knowledge will make it easy to produce
conviction (Knowledge = Instruction)
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To employ persuasion is to use strict reasoning.
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Rhetoric is not made up with a single definite.
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Rhetoric is as universal as dialectic and clear
and useful.
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Rhetoric can be defined as the ability to
observe, however rhetoric included the power to observe the means of persuasion
on any subject.
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Some modes of persuasion belong strictly to the
art of rhetoric.
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Modes of persuasion include as follows:
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Personal character of the speaker.
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Positioning of the audience in a certain frame
of mind.
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The words of the speech itself.
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As well as the modes of persuasion there are
three means of persuasion as well. These include as follows:
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To reason logically
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To understand human character
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To understand emotions.
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Rhetoric falls into three divisions. These
include:
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Political
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Forensic
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Ceremonial oratory of display.
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These three kinds of rhetoric refer to the three
different kinds of time.
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Rhetoric has distinct ends and views for each of
its three kinds (divisions) (Aristotle, 2016).
Therefore based on Aristotles rhetorical speech overall it
can be seen that rhetoric is a form of dialectic that refers to persuasive
speech (how we persuade people).
Activity 2
Recording of my own use of Rhetoric
https://soundcloud.com/beck_anne-user-606680066/week-3-recording-of-my-own-use
Activity 3
Short Review on Rhetoric Video
After watching, In Defence of Rhetoric: No Longer Just for
Lairs, it was seen that the main key or purpose of the video was to define the
actual meaning of Rhetoric and dismiss the untrue definitions associated with
Rhetoric. The video contain a range of highly reparable sources, who explained
the actual meaning associated with the term Rhetoric. The video’s which again
was aimed to dispel any negative perceptions associated with Rhetoric also was
designed to defended the study of Rhetoric and answer the ultimate question,
what is Rhetoric? Throughout this short video Rhetoric was defined as the study
of the technique using language effectively. In other words used within this
short video, Rhetoric was described as how we persuade each other or how we
present arguments to each other, not just by the way we say it but also by the
gestures we use to convey it. It described many example and demonstrations when
rhetoric was and wasn’t used and how this affected the outcome of the initial
decision.
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