What is Rhetoric?

I found it interesting how there are many categories and meanings and even subcategories of what a rhetoric is. I wouldn’t thing that a word I would consider to be fairly simple and easy to understand would have such a deep meaning behind it with many different approaches and opinions regarding many aspects. Aristotle introduced me to many new forms of rhetoric like that of value, in specific with audience. For example, in attempt to connecting to an audience, a singer would try to display emotion to connect to them, so they would be able to feel the power of their emotion and connect to their music. Rhetorical appeals of credibility was something I learned I already strongly value, because it occurs much more often than we think. It is very true that who speaks matters because a listener would value that opinion more or less depending on that speaker and the audience would value the author depending on their credibility and how valued their opinion is to them.

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