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Osmara Altenhof's List: Rhetoric definitions

  • Jan 30, 10

    This page is a resource for Doctor Wheeler's students in composition and literature. The page is still under construction, and I will be adding to this website over the term.

    • how does one make an argument persuasive enough to change the beliefs of another  person?
      • This simplifies the three ways to persuade someone regardless of the form of communication

    • a basic premise for rhetoric is the indivisibility of means from meaning;  how one says something conveys meaning as much as what one says
    • Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing. And the art of  persuasion.
    • What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion
    • Who is the author/speaker?

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