- I learned that rhetoric can be extremely complicated to understand at first. However, after reading a little bit of Lawrence Prelli’s “Rhetoric of Display,” I was able to grasp a better understanding needed to write my essay, and I was able to understand how rhetoric works in real world applications also.
- The exam allowed me to be aware of the necessary terms that are needed to be able to navigate the given works of rhetoric. Also the exam helped to cement the people we’ve been learning about in class, because we had to know more detailed information on them for the test.
Month: October 2017
Final Draft Cultural Research Essay
10/3 Homework
Homework for 10/3
I perceive Plato as addressing his views on rhetoric by listing the many theories and philosophies that rhetoric is not. For example, talks about how sophist use rhetoric to deceive people, (Socrates uses this on trial), and I think he includes this to tell that he does not support sophist and the way they “teach rhetoric.” Quote to support my previous claim, Plato states, “Sophistic rhetoric led people to base their actions on emotion and opinion rather than reason and knowledge.” (Classical Greek Rhetoric, 110).
However, I have many questions for class on my many annotations I’ve made. I became very confused with Plato’s reasoning/ideas produced.