- Roberts-Miller describes the extreme consequences of negative rhetoric or rhetoric that intentionally misleads an audience (11). Think of a time you have seen rhetoric in action. Was it positive or negative? Was it used to get at the truth or to mislead? What were the consequences?
rhetoric is described as a way of speaking to persuade another person. Think of it like a rhetorical question; you ask someone something (that doesn’t typically have an answer) in hopes of changing their view on something. An example would be a sub page on reddit called r/ELI5 which stands for ‘Explain Like I’m 5″. It’s devoted to clearly explaining difficult concepts in a simpler fashion to others. I guess this can be considered a type of rhetoric. This would be a positive rhetoric as it teaches people ideas perceived as hard and makes it no longer as hard. Sometimes people can mislead others by giving false/incorrect information but through personal experience, I found that not to happen often at all.