No but really…this class has made me realize rhetoric is EVERYWHERE! Almost every time I have a conversation, I am using rhetoric to benefit from the conversation. Earlier today, I used emotional and logical appeal to convince my roommate to buy me lunch. I explained to him that I was out of meal swipes, so I would be starving if he didn't swipe me in (that was me exploiting his emotions to make him feel sorry for me, resulting in him buying me lunch). I also used logical appeal, reminding him that he drank all of my gatorade the previous week, so he owed me. In case you were wondering…I successfully exploited my roommate, and he bought me lunch. Lol
RHETORIC IS LITERALLY LIFE!!!! AHH!!!
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ReplyDeleteI agree with this claim that rhetoric is an integral part of everyday lives. Most of the time, this has to do with our communication with others and the different ways in which we can persuade individuals. For example, in my organic chemistry class today, we were discussing a question that many of us disagreed on. In this case, we all had to use logos and logical reasoning in order to convince the others of the correct answer. It is a crucial part of everything in which we do.
ReplyDeleteRhetoric is definitely in everything that we do. We employ it when we try to get our teacher to give us an extension on an assignment, and when we try to convince our parents that they should buy us a new car. Rhetoric is there even when we don't realize it. If we understand it, we can better use it to our advantage.
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