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.