what is rhetoric? what are its salient features? give illustrations.
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Rhetoric an art of using language to convince.
Aristotle explains rhetoric as "faculty of observing in a given case and available means of persuasion" and mastery of art was required for victory in case at law or passage of proposals in assembly or fame as speaker in civic ceremonies calls it "combination of science of logic and of ethical branch of politics".
Rhetoric provides understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for perfect situations such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos.
Rhetorical features of text could be broken down in three primary categories: logos, pathos and ethos.
Often termed as “rhetorical triangle” where three elements interlinked to make persuasive arguments for specific audience. Logos deals with text's content, framework and reasoning.
Rhetoric means Faith.
Salient features of rhetoric:
One of the best features of this rhetoric is it makes all the readers convince from the specific point of view.
Writers can make a specific type of strategies for the texts in a specific manner to make them logically ordered which helps to establish the credibility and make the target audience convince.
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