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Rhetorical strategies are the efforts made by authors or speakers to persuade or inform their audiences. According to James W. Gray, [importance?] there are various argument strategies used in writing. He describes four of these as argument from analogy, argument from absurdity, thought experiments, and inference to the best explanation.
Our first obligation, then, as rhetorical scholars is to look backwards at all the unquestioned scholarship that has come before; then, we must begin to re-map our notion of rhetorical history.” [32] Contemporary feminists have linked the mutual desires of social justice and composition and rhetoric into their pedagogies.
Colon – a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause that is grammatically, but not logically, complete. Colloquialism – a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. Common topics – arguments and approaches useful in rhetorical settings. Consubstantiality – substance commonality.
Amplification is thus a set of strategies which, taken together, constitute inventio, one of the five classical canons of rhetoric. As a means of developing multiple forms of expression for a thought, amplification "names an important point of intersection where figures of speech and figures of thought coalesce."
Rhetorical terms, i.e. terms used to describe or analyze rhetorical arguments, including those in persuasive speeches and opinion editorials. Subcategories ...
The original version includes only three points: the writer/speaker (ethos), the audience (pathos), and the message itself (logos). All the points affect one another, so mastering each creates a persuasive rhetorical stance. [9] The rhetorical tetrahedron carries those three points along with context. Context can help explain the "why" and "how ...
"Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning" College Composition and Communication, Vol. 39, No. 2. (May 1988), pp. 167–183.