1. What have you taken away/ what can you tell me about Rhetoric?
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion and is used to convince a specific audience of an author’s idea/opinion. Rhetoric is used in a strategic way and can vary depending on speaker or audience. Rhetorical devices include ethos, pathos, and logos, as well as several others.
2. How does rhetoric relate to critical thinking/reading?
Rhetoric is similar to critical thinking because a speaker has to articulate what they are saying so that their message resonates with their audience. If they do not appropriately do that then they will not persuade their audience effectively, or at all. Critical thinking involves deduction and reasoning and rhetoric also involves reasoning in the sense that an argument is laid out and they use rhetoric to deduce information and come to a single conclusion that the author/speaker feels is the correct conclusion.
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