I find rhetoric just like metaphors to be pervasive throughout our everyday activities and thoughts. We are constantly examining our surroundings and forming opinions on them. The phrase that stood out to me was “when this same teacher hands you an advertisement, photograph or article and asks you to write a rhetorical analysis of it, you might have been baffled or felt a little overwhelmed.” I never actually thought about it this way before but it’s perfectly true. We become slightly overwhelmed when our teachers assign us papers and readings on rhetorical analysis. We find the assignments to be boring, and at times difficult. But we fail to recognize that we convey rhetorical messages everyday. We also fail to see the benefits rhetorical analysis holds in store for us. Being able to analyze rhetoric allows us to be in “situations—from boardrooms to your children’s classrooms or churches to city council meetings where you need to understand the heart of the arguments being presented.” Understanding of rhetoric allows us to do that.