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Rhetoric
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"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."
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art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations
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Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers that attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.[1] As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western tradition.[2] Its best known definition comes from Aristotle, who considers it a counterpart of both logic and politics, and calls it "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."[3] Rhetorics typically provide heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos.
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Rhetorics typically provide heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Along with grammar and logic (or dialectic—see Martianus Capella), rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse.
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"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
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Greeks highly valued public political participation, rhetoric emerged as a crucial tool to influence politics
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Aristotle extended the definition of rhetoric, calling it the ability to identify the appropriate means of persuasion in a given situation, thereby making rhetoric applicable to all fields, not just politics.
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Aristotle
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He restricted rhetoric to the domain of the contingent or probable: those matters that admit multiple legitimate opinions or arguments.
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Neo-Aristotelians generally study rhetoric as political discourse, while the neo-Sophistic view contends that rhetoric cannot be so limited.
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Rhetorical scholar Michael Leff characterizes the conflict between these positions as viewing rhetoric as a "thing contained" versus a "container."
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the neo-Sophists threaten to expand rhetoric beyond a point of coherent theoretical value.
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Kenneth Burke asserted humans use rhetoric to resolve conflicts by identifying shared characteristics and interests in symbols
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Individuals engage in the rhetorical process anytime they speak or produce meaning.
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Among the many scholars who have since pursued Burke's line of thought, James Boyd White sees rhetoric as a broader domain of social experience in his notion of constitutive rhetoric. Influenced by theories of social construction, White argues that culture is "reconstituted" through language. Just as language influences people, people influence language. Language is socially constructed, and depends on the meanings people attach to it. Because language is not rigid and changes depending on the situation, the very usage of language is rhetorical. An author, White would say, is always trying to construct a new world and persuading his or her readers to share that world within the text.[15]
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Andrew Gumbinerthe art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers that attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations
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speakers and writers to move audiences to action with arguments.
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rhetoric emerged as a crucial tool to influence politics
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Rhetoric, in Plato's opinion, is merely a form of flattery and functions similarly to cookery, which masks the undesirability of unhealthy food by making it taste good. Thus, Plato considered any speech of lengthy prose aimed at flattery as within the scope of rhetoric.
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Eugene Garver, in his critique of "Aristotle's Rhetoric
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five particular canons: inventio (invention), dispositio (arrangement), elocutio (style), memoria (memory), and actio (delivery).
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rhetoric shifted into the courtly and religious applications
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Debate clubs and lyceums also developed
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. Courses such as public speaking and speech analysis apply fundamental Greek theories (such as the modes of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos) as well as trace rhetorical development throughout the course of history. Rhetoric has earned a more esteemed reputation as a field of study with the emergence of Communication Studies departments in university programs and in conjunction with the linguistic turn. Rhetorical study has broadened in scope, and is especially utilized by the fields of marketing, politics, and literature.
Rhetoric, as an area of study, is concerned with how humans use symbols, especially la
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Harvard University, the first university in the United States, based on the European model, taught a basic curriculum, including rhetoric.
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Over the 20th century, with the influence of social constructionism and pragmatism, this tradition began to change. Robert L. Scott states that rhetoric is, in fact, epistemic.[33] His argument is based on the belief that truth is not a central, objective set of facts but that truth is based on the situation at hand. Scott goes as far as stating that if a man believes in an ultimate truth and argues it, he is only fooling himself by convincing himself of one argument among many possible options. Ultimately, truth is relative to situated experiences, and rhetoric is necessary to give meaning to individual circumstances. Researchers in the rhetoric of science, have shown how the two are difficult to separate, and how discourse helps to create knowledge. This perspective is often called "epistemic rhetoric", where communication among interlocutors is fundamental to the creation of knowledge in communities.
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He thus wrote his speeches as "models" for his students to imitate in the same way that poets might imitate Homer or Hesiod, seeking to inspire in them a desire to attain fame through civic leadership.
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"), can exist independent of the art of dialectic. Plato claims that since sophists appeal only to what seems probable, they are not advancing their students and audiences, but simply flattering them with what they want to hear.
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- ethos: how the character and credibility of a speaker can influence an audience to consider him/her to be believable.
- This could be any position in which the speaker—whether an acknowledged expert on the subject, or an acquaintance of a person who experienced the matter in question—knows about the topic.
- For instance, when a magazine claims that An MIT professor predicts that the robotic era is coming in 2050, the use of big-name "MIT" (a world-renowned American university for the advanced research in math, science, and technology) establishes the "strong" credibility.
- pathos: the use of emotional appeals to alter the audience's judgment.
- This can be done through metaphor, amplification, storytelling, or presenting the topic in a way that evokes strong emotions in the audience.
- logos: the use of reasoning, either inductive or deductive, to construct an argument.
- Logos appeals include appeals to statistics, math, logic, and objectivity. For instance, when advertisements claim that their product is 37% more effective than the competition, they are making a logical appeal.
- Inductive reasoning uses examples (historical, mythical, or hypothetical) to draw conclusions.
- Deductive reasoning, or "enthymematic" reasoning, uses generally accepted propositions to derive specific conclusions. The term logic evolved from logos. Aristotle emphasized enthymematic reasoning as central to the process of rhetorical invention, though later rhetorical theorists placed much less emphasis on it.
- ethos: how the character and credibility of a speaker can influence an audience to consider him/her to be believable.
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forensic (also known as judicial, was concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past, issues of guilt), deliberative (also known as political, was concerned with determining whether or not particular actions should or should not be taken in the future), and epideictic (also known as ceremonial, was concerned with praise and blame, values, right and wrong, demonstrating beauty and skill in the present).
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"second sophistic," a development which gave rise to the charge (made by Quintilian and others) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.
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not commonly regarded as a rhetorician, St. Augustine
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he power of eloquence, which is so efficacious in pleading either for the erroneous cause or the right", should not be used for righteous purposes (IV.3).
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Augustine is also remembered for arguing for the preservation of pagan works and fostering a church tradition which led to conservation of numerous pre-Christian rhetorical writings.
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A French scholar, Pierre de la Ramée, in Latin Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), dissatisfied with what he saw as the overly broad and redundant organization of the trivium, proposed a new curriculum. In his scheme of things, the five components of rhetoric no longer lived under the common heading of rhetoric. Instead, invention and disposition were determined to fall exclusively under the heading of dialectic, while style, delivery, and memory were all that remained for rhetoric.
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martyred during the French Wars of Religion. His teachings, seen as inimical to Catholicism, were short-lived in France but found a fertile ground in the Netherlands, Germany and England.[48]
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- Ideological criticism – critics engage rhetoric as it suggests the beliefs, values, assumptions, and interpretations held by the rhetor or the larger culture. Ideological criticism also treats ideology as an artifact of discourse, one that is embedded in key terms (called "ideographs") as well as material resources and discursive embodiment.
- Feminist criticism – rooted in the feminist movement, which seeks to improve conditions for women and change existing power relations between men and women. It critiques rhetorical forms and processes that allow oppression to be maintained and seeks to transform them.
- Cluster criticism – a method developed by Kenneth Burke that seeks to help the critic understand the rhetor's worldview. This means identifying terms that are 'clustered' around key symbols in the rhetorical artifact and the patterns in which they appear.
- Generic criticism – a method that assumes certain situations call for similar needs and expectations within the audience, therefore calling for certain types of rhetoric. It studies rhetoric in different times and locations, looking at similarities in the rhetorical situation and the rhetoric that responds to them. Examples include eulogies, inaugural addresses, and declarations of war.
- Narrative criticism – narratives help to organize experiences in order to endow meaning to historical events and transformations. Narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and how the construction of the narrative directs the interpretation of the situation
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The Oratorians, by contrast, reserved it a lesser place, in part due to the
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tress they placed on modern language acquisition and a more sensualist philosophy (like Bernard Lamy's La Rhétorique ou l'Art de parler (1675) which is an excellent example of their approach). Nonetheless, in the 18th Century, rhetoric was the structure and crown of secondary education, with works such as Rollin's Treatise of Studies achieving a wide and enduring fame across the Continent.[66] Later, with Nicolas Boileau and François de Malherbe, rhetoric is the instrument of the clarity of the comment and speech ; the literature that ensues from it is named "Sublime". The main representative remains Rivarol.
The French Revolution, however, turned this around. Philosophers such as Condorcet, who drafted the French revolu
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eventually was taken out of the school curriculum altogether at the time of the Separation of State and Churches (1905
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regained ground in what was left of Catholic education in France
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1960s a change began to take place, as the word rhetoric and the body of knowledge i
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Knowledge of rhetoric was so dim in the early 1970s that his short memoir on rhetoric was seen as highly innovative. Basic as it was, it did help rhetoric regain some currency in avant-garde circles
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, more profound work was taking place that eventually gave rise to the French school of rhetoric as it exists today.[67]
This rhetorical revival took place on two fronts.
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Harry Oppenheimer prize and whose recent book on Hyperpolitique
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a counterpart of both logic and politics
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"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations,
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Isocrates states, "we have come together and founded cities and made laws and invented arts; and, generally speaking, there is not institution devised by man which the power of speech has not helped us to establish". With this statement he argues that rhetoric is a fundamental part of civic life in every society and that it has been necessary in the foundation of all aspects of society.
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Dante-Gabryell MonsonRhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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Shay O'NeillVery Well thought out concepts and Ideas on the use and definitions of rhetoric. Was interesting as it look at the many facets of this idea and goes back to look through history to understand where we are in today's society.
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Rhetoric is the art of using language to communicate effectively
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Public relations, lobbying, law, marketing, professional and technical writing, and advertising are modern professions that employ rhetorical practitioners
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Theorists generally agree that a significant reason for the revival of the study of rhetoric was the renewed importance of language and persuasion in the increasingly mediated environment of the 20th century (see Linguistic turn) and through the 21st century, with the media focus on the wide variations and analyses of political rhetoric and its consequences. The rise of advertising and of mass media such as photography, telegraphy, radio, and film brought rhetoric more prominently into people's lives.
Reflecting this, more recently the term rhetoric has been applied to media forms other than verbal language, e.g. Visual rhetoric. The goal is to analyze how non-verbal communication persuades. For example, a soft drink advertisement showing an image of young people drinking and laughing is making the case that the consumer, by using the product, will be healthy and happy.
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Brian Fauss"Rhetoric\n\nThis article is about the concept of rhetoric in general. For \nthe work by Aristotle, see \nRhetoric (Aristotle)\n.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the \nRoman Senate\n, \nCicero\n denounces \nCatiline\n.\n\nRhetoric\n is the art of using language to communicate effectively. It \ninvolves three audience appeals: \nlogos\n, \npathos\n, and \nethos\n, as well as the five canons of rhetoric: invention \nor discovery, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Along with \ngrammar\n and \nlogic\n or \ndialectic\n, rhetoric is one of the \nthree ancient arts \nof discourse\n. From \nancient Greece\n to the late 19th Century, it was \na central part of Western education, filling the need to train public speakers \nand writers to move audiences to action with arguments.\n[1]\n \nThe very act of defining has itself been a central part of rhetoric, appearing \namong \nAristotle\n's \nTopics\n.\n[2]\n The word is derived \nfrom the \nGreek\n ῥητορικός (rhētorikós), "oratorical",\n[3]\n from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr), "public speaker",\n[4]\n \nrelated to ῥημα (rhêma), "that which \nis said or spoken, word, saying",\n[5]\n and ultimately \nderived from the verb ἐρῶ (erô), "to \nspeak, say".\n[6]\n In its broadest \nsense, rhetoric concerns human discourse.\n[7]\n\n[8]"
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five canons of rhetoric
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rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse
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contemporary rhetoric investigates human discourse writ large
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three genres of rhetoric
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he study of rhetoric trains students to speak and/or write effectively, as well as critically understand and analyze discourse.
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fine words will come more readily through reading and hearing the eloquent than by pursuing the rules of rhetoric.
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The relationship between rhetoric and knowledge
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Enlightenment thinking about language, which attempted to make language a neutral, transparent medium.
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while dialectical methods are necessary to find truth in theoretical matters, rhetorical methods are required in practical matters such as adjudicating somebody's guilt or innocence when charged in a court of law, or adjudicating a prudent course of action to be taken in a deliberative assembly.
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suitable style for the discussion of scientific topics
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the style should be proper "to the occasion, the subject, and the persons."
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how non-verbal communication persuades.
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hetoric normally explains the three arts of using language as a means to persuade
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Theorists generally agree that a significant reason for the revival of the study of rhetoric was the renewed importance of language and persuasion in the increasingly mediated environment of the twentieth century (see Linguistic turn) and through the twenty-first century, with the media focus on the wide variations and analyses of political rhetoric and its consequences. The rise of advertising and of mass media such as photography, telegraphy, radio, and film brought rhetoric more prominently into people's lives.
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As a course of study, rhetoric trains students to speak and/or write effectively.
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he study of principles and rules of composition as a means for moving audiences
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P. GillespieWikipedia definition of Rhetoric as "usin language as a means to persuade, and the classical art of "moving audiences to action with arguments".
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using language as a means to persuade (logos, pathos, and ethos)
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filling the need to train public speakers and writers to move audiences to action with arguments.
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The relationship between rhetoric and knowledge is one of its oldest and most interesting problems
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discourse helps to create knowledge
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language and discourse as central to, rather than in conflict with, knowledge-making
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Public relations, lobbying, law, marketing, professional and technical writing, and advertising are modern professions that employ rhetorical practitioners.
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advise and exhort their peers and followers (the Laos or army) in wise and appropriate action
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the use of oratory as the medium through which political and judicial decisions were made, and through which philosophical ideas were developed and disseminated.
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forms, means, and strategies for persuading an audience of the correctness of the orator's arguments
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the skilled use of rhetoric was essential to the discovery of truths, because it provided the means of ordering and clarifying arguments.
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They thus claimed that human "excellence" was not an accident of fate or a prerogative of noble birth, but an art or "techne" that could be taught and learned.
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Man is the measure of all things
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Plato (427-347 BC) famously outlined the differences between true and false rhetoric in a number of dialogues
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the art of the Sophists which he calls "rhetoric" (after the public speaker or rhêtôr), can exist independent of the art of dialectic
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the possibility of a true art of rhetoric based upon the knowledge produced by dialectic
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rhetorical proof
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character and credibility of a speaker
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emotional appeals
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reasoning, either inductive or deductive
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three different types or genres of civic rhetoric
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the formation of the perfect orator as a politically active, virtuous, publicly minded citizen.
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At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the "second sophistic," a development which gave rise to the charge (made by Quintilian and others) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.
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Tarek AmrThe art or technique of persuasion, usually through the use of language.
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