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Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) of classical antiquity, along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writers use to inform, persuade, and motivate their audiences. Rhetoric also provides…
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| Rhetoric | is a | art of persuasion | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | fundamental part of civic life in every society and that it has been necessary in the foundation of all aspects of society | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | public art capable of shaping opinion | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | art capable of influencing civic life | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | study of cultural rhetorics | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | important text in modern rhetorical theory | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | art | 0.90 | text |
| Rhetoric | is a | practice and methodology that developed in the late twentieth century to broaden the study of rhetoric beyond the dominant rhetorical tradition that has been constructed and sha… | 0.90 | text |
| courtrooms | instance of | While classical rhetoric trained speakers to be effective persuaders in public forums and in institutions | 0.80 | text |
| assemblies | instance of | While classical rhetoric trained speakers to be effective persuaders in public forums and in institutions | 0.80 | text |
| contemporary rhetoric investigates human discourse writ large | instance of | While classical rhetoric trained speakers to be effective persuaders in public forums and in institutions | 0.80 | text |
| assemblies | instance of | rhetoric meant persuasion in public and political settings | 0.80 | text |
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