Using Rhetoric In Real World Scenarios

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When do you use rhetoric in real world scenarios? Oh, hey there, did I grab your attention? Well when talking to someone and trying to persuade them I define rhetoric as defending my thoughts and actions to others and allowing them to see my point of view. I support this definition of rhetoric because to persuade another party, he or she must be against your stance on the subject matter. People use rhetoric in real world scenarios to do many things in jobs such as in the criminal justice system where a suspect is taken into an interrogation room for a suspicion in a crime. The suspect tries to use rhetoric to persuade the interrogator to look at the case in his or her point of view. The detective uses rhetoric to persuade the suspect accused of the crime to confess by suggesting to reduces his sentence if he or she cooperates. The way I think about it, you cannot persuade somebody who already supports your opinion; persuasion is used only on those that have a different view on matters. In my perspective rhetoric can be powerful because the fact that it’s the way people get fooled such as when a person wants something he or she persuades that person to get something out of it. Rhetoric is the order of how someone communicates specific terms. Aristotle who is the father of rhetoric whom created rhetoric and …show more content…

Aristotle developed the three branches of rhetoric which is speech, and writing using justice or injustice of an accusation. For example, back when I was taking about criminal justice, in a court room we have a defendant and a prosecutor, and judge. Prosecutor persuades the audience with a statement and makes them agree to what he or she has. By doing so it convinces the judge to make a jurisdiction. In this understanding the judge is the third party which means he can be persuaded because the judge is against the stance on the subject

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