Rhetoric

 

Response 6

 

 

Persuasion

 

 The art of persuasion has been around for thousands of years and there is not much to change this. The use of words to convince something upon someone might seem a bit unfair but that is what language is for. To use it in multiple different ways. Although some people may benefit and others will lose something that is just how life goes.

By reading the works of these three authors I have realized that persuasion or rhetoric isn’t set in stone. All those forms are open for opinion. Some might say it is unfair or misleading but personally I think it is great. That someone can be on one side of an argument then just by saying some words in a certain manner the person can have changed their opinion. In the text by Achebe I like how he doesn’t use one example or talk about one aspect of rhetoric but he talks more of how language is able to do this.

            One other aspect of saw in the texts is about how language can be abused. I agree with this statement I think it is easy for people to abuse language but people should have the responsibility to keep it under control. Achebe talks about how more and more people are using language in the incorrect way. I hadn’t though about that until I read it. But the more and more I think about it, I think its true. People don’t speak the way they used to and they almost make language bad. Language should still be a formal means of talking to people or persuading their ideas.