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  • George Campbell:  [Rhetoric] is that art or talent by which discourse is adapted to its

      

                            end.  The four ends of discourse are to enlighten the understanding, please

      

                            the imagination, move the passion, and influence the will.

  • Erika Lindemann:  "Rhetoric is a form of reasoning about probabilities, based on

      

                            Assumptions people share as members of a commununity."
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  • Quintillian:  "Rhetoric is the art of speaking well.
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  • Andrea Lunsford:  "Rhetoric is the art, practice, and study of human communication

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  Desaray Klimenko

  Here is some of the ways that very influential people used the word Rhetoric and definted it

  • Plato:  Rhetoric is "the art of winning  the soul by discourse."

  • Aristotle:  Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of  the available

     

                             means of persuasion.

  • A. Richards:   Rhetoric is  the study of misunderstandings and their remedies.

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• 14 Mar 10
  

  Denise Menchaca

  A list of definitions of rhetoric.

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  Valerie Cooper

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  • Richards:   Rhetoric is  the study of misunderstandings and their remedies.

     

     

  • George Kennedy:  "A Hoot in the Dark"  (1992)

     

     

     

    Rhetoric in the most general sense  may perhaps be identified with the energy inherent in communication:  the  emotional energy that impels the speaker to speak, the physical energy expanded  in the utterance, the energy level coded in the message, and the energy  experienced by the recipient in decoding the message.

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    11. Edward T.  Channing: Lectures Read to the Seniors  at Harvard College  (c. 1856)

     

     

     

    [Rhetoric is] a body of rules  derived from experience and observation, extending to all communication by  language and designed to make it efficient. It does not ask whether a man is to  be a speaker or writer, --a poet, philosopher, or debater; but simply,--is it  his wish to be put in the right way of communicating his mind with power to  others, by words spoken or written. If so, rhetoric undertakes to show him rules  or principles which will help to make the expression of his thoughts  effective.

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  Valerie Cooper on 2010-01-31
  This is a really interesting collection of what rhetoric means to different writers. There is really no one true definition, it's difficult because it is a really general and broad term.

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