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…