The Devices Of Speech: Rhetoric

Aristotle prescribed the Treatise on Rhetoric over 2,000 years ago. In the pursuit of the means of persuasion, he described 3 types of persuasive speech:

1. Forensic, or judicial, rhetoric that establishes facts and judgements about the past.
2. Epideictic, or demonstrative, rhetoric which proclaims about the present situation.
3. Deliberative rhetoric, or symbouleutikon, to accomplish change is through forecasting potentials on the future.

With the modes of logos, ethos and pathos, the 3 types of persuasive speech can be performed on. Along with the types and modes, there are devices.

Rhetoric questions cannot be proven wrong, only misfitting, and it may be a stumbling tool to misguide your opponents in a debate.  - Re: Subtle deviations from strategic standings, 2003-07.20

The only way to retort rhetoric questions is either to know the art of life or the art of equivocation. - 2002-09.05

End with a fallacious affirmation, you may end up in a deadlock to make apologetics and with a rhetorical question, you open floodgates to overwhelm your opponents, and stumble them by luring such affirmations. - 2003-07.20

Antithesis is a deceptive rhetoric magic in balancing the undesirable with the possibly non-existing hope of a desirable attribute. - 2012-05.06

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