Essays on Rhetoric

In the conversation conducted by NPR’s Mellisa Block on the topic about the word ‘Thug’, John McWhorter tactfully uses a rhetoric strategy to put across his argument.  From the conversation, the word has been overly misinterpreted and it was essential for a Professor of the English language to chip in...

Contrasting Attitudes Towards Rhetoric: Aristotle and Plato Even though Plato and Aristotle shared some attitudes towards the use of rhetoric in politics, they differed sharply in most cases. Plato believed that the use of rhetoric could have serious negative impacts on the society if it were used by people whose character...

In the essay “The Prism of Race,” the author addresses the issue about race that impacted significantly to racism. The book expounds about the problem of the color line being the critical issue in the twentieth-century era (Slate 8). Consequently, it encompassed the relation of the lighter to the darker,...

Allen (22) describes a rhetoric situation as a fundamental context of any rhetorical event consisting of a set of constraints, issues, and an audience. There exist different leading views of the rhetorical situation. One implies that problems are made silent by rhetoric to make conditions, another argues that situations lead...

Rhetorical skills enable speakers to convince the audience about the topic being discussed or the point being made. There are three artistic tools for rhetorical presentation; ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos or ethical appeal entails the speaker’s use of personal character or credibility to convince the listeners. More precisely, ethos...

Martin Luther king is one of the most celebrated personalities. His words, quotes and speech have had an impact on people for a very long time since the 1960s.His speech has however been the most dominant and known speech ever that has had people talking since then. He spoke out...

The Central Park Five Documentary The 2012 “Central Park Five” documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon describes the arrest, trial, conviction and later acquittal of five American youth for the horrific crime of assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger, Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989...

Barack Obama's Keynote Address at the Democratic Convention Barack Obama has been acknowledged as an accomplished orator but some of his speeches standout. A majority of people consider Obama's 2004 keynote address at the Democratic convention as the speech that made him president. The speech was successful due to the effective...

The Debate on Meat Consumption The debate on whether eating meat is morally right or not has been dominant across the world. In her work, Flesh of Your Flesh: Should you eat meat?, Elizabeth Kolbert illustrates how humanity hold contradicting view on whether they should consume meat. She explains that a...

A huge gap exists between students’ outputs and professor’s expectations when it comes to rhetorical reading.  Kant explains that it is common for students to turn in compositions or essays that do not present an original view or problem. Most of these just echo the ideas presented by the textual...

The song, Counting Stars is an original composition produced and performed by an American all-boy pop-rock band called One Republic that comprises Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins. Additionally, the song has received wide international acclaim as it resonates with millions of music lovers due to its message and catchy lyrics....

Rhetoric element involves the persuasive or stylistic device that a speaker uses to convey to the listeners meaning with the aim of persuading them to understand a given topic differently. Thesis statement: Reagan uses repetition, hyperbole, and allusion in his speech. Firstly, in his speech, Reagan uses repetition as a rhetorical element...