Rhetoric

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Rhetoric is the science of how to speak well. Rhetoric is a skill that can be trained, and taught.

This includes the following:

  • Speaking to an audience, and convincing the people (sometimes called persuasion)
  • Speaking to only a few adversaries
  • Getting one's own ideas across.

According to Aristotle, rhetoric can be divided into

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