ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Rhetoric (/ˈrɛtərɪk/) is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is rhetoric? Rhetoric is the study and art of writing and speaking persuasively. Its aim is to inform, educate, persuade or motivate specific audiences in specific situations.

Detailed explanation-3: -To be rhetorically effective (and thus persuasive), an author must engage the audience in a variety of compelling ways, which involves carefully choosing how to craft his or her argument so that the outcome, audience agreement with the argument or point, is achieved.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rhetoric, broadly described, is persuasive writing (or speaking). In critical thinking we tend to use rhetoric in a negative sense. It is an attempt to persuade you to accept a claim not based upon good evidence and argument, but by some form of trickery usually some sort of psychological or emotional ploy.