Well to tell you the truth I really didn't know what rhetoric is. I had heard about it before but never really found out what the actually definition was. I had pieced together that it maybe had something to do with persuasion and deception. And, obviously, as I look back I always remember rhetoric being associated with bad connotations.
I had to do some readings for my English 201 class (Silva Rhetoricae and James A. Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric") and to tell you the truth, I had no idea that rhetorics was so broad. I guess the biggest shock to me was that rhetorics are involved in almost all daily activities. It was just amazing to realize that rhetorics are a huge part of my life and I didn’t even know what the word meant. The biggest theme that came from the Silva Rhetoricae website was the line “how one says something conveys meaning as much as what one says”. Now that I am more aware of the power of rhetorics I will be able to safeguard and propel myself in the future.
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