Rhetoric
The study of rhetoric separates what is being said (content) from how it is being said (rhetorical analysis). Understanding how content and rhetoric work together is important to understanding business, newspaper articles, politics, speeches, and any written or spoken information meant to persuade or convince a person to a particular viewpoint.
We will study 3 tenets of Rhetoric:
1. Rhetorical forms
definition, comparison-contrast, classification, process analysis, description, narrative, cause- effect, and assertion-justification.
2. Rhetorical Style
Diction & syntax, tone, connotation, figurative language
3. Rhetorical Devices
allusion, parallel structure, repetition, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, anaphora, cataphora, polysyndeton, asyndeton, chiasmus, diacope, and many others.
Rhetorical vocabulary and examples site
