THE RHETORICOF

REVOLUTION

RHETORIC

IT IS THE ART OF PERSUASION;INSINCERE LANGUGE.

PERSUASION IS BASED ON THREETYPES OF APPEAL:

LITERARY ELEMENT

PERSUASION: A FORM OFWRITING, USUALLY NONFICTION,THAT ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCEREADERS TO THINK OR ACT IN APARTICULAR WAY.

PERSUASIVE APPROACHES

1.APPEAL TO REASON, LOGIC, AND EVIDENCE.

2. APPEAL TO EMOTIONS, SUCH AS FEAR, PRIDE, OR HATE

3. ETHICAL APPEAL, OR PERSUASION BASED ON WHAT WE OURSELVES, MORAL PHILOSOPHERS, OR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN OUR CULTURE THINK IS RIGHT

RHETORIC DEVICES

EXAMPLES:1.FIGURATIAVE LANGUAGE2.HYPERBOLE

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS TO WHICH NOANSWER IS EXPECTED

A RHETORICAL QUESTIONEMPHASIZES THE OBVIOUSANSWER TO WHAT IS ASKED.EXAMPLE: “WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?”

PARALLELISM

IS THE USE OF A SERIES OFWORDS, PHRASES, OR SENTENCESTHAT HAVE SIMILARGRAMMATICAL FORM.

CONNOTATIVE LANGUAGE

REFERS TO THE SUGGESTED ORIMPLIED MEANINGS THAT AREASSOCIATED WITH A WORDBEYOND ITS DICTIONARY(DENNOTATIVE) MEANING

FAULTY REASONING

PEOPLE SEEKING TO PERSUADEOFTEN USE FAULTY REASONING.

COMMON TYPES OF FAULTY REASONING

1. CIRCULAR REASONING: AN ARGUMENT THAT MOVES IN A CIRCLE, ASSUMING WHAT IT PURPORTS TO PROVE

EXAMPLE: “PABLO PICASSO WAS AN ARTISTIC GENIUS BECAUSE HISPAINTINGS SHOWEXTRAORDINARY TALENT.”

2. BANDWAGON REASONING: PRESENTS AN ACTION OR IDEA AS VALID BECAUSE OTHERS ARE DOING OR THINKING IT.

EXAMPLE: WHEN YOU TRY TOPERSUADE YOUR PARENTS TO LETYOU TO A PARTY “BECAUSEEVERYONE ELSE IS GOING.”

THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE

PERSUASIVE RHETORIC WASCRITICAL IN CONVINCINGAMERICAN COLONIES TO BREAKWITH GREAT BRITAIN.

ALTHOUGH RHETORIC ISIMPORTANT, IMAGES HAVEBECOME EQUALLY VITAL INPOLITICAL PERSUASION.

SPEAKERS OFTEN EXPRESSTHROUGH CARTOONS WHAT THEIR AUDIENCE ALREADY FEELS.