Rhetoric

Hyperbole

In a series of posts on persuasive language, commonly referred to as rhetoric, I mentioned some rhetorical devices that can make a...

Inaugural Rhetoric

Try as I might to find a five-dumbbell example of recent political rhetoric, they seem to be in short supply these days. Liz Cheney gave...

Is All Fair in Love and Rhetoric?

At the end of the last post in this series on rhetoric, I indicated that things often considered positive qualities, such as fairness and...

Rhetoric - Turning the Tables

In the last piece in this series on rhetoric, I talked about how to defend yourself against someone trying to get the best of you in a...

Rhetoric - Controlling an Argument

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] In the last posting in this series on rhetoric, I...

Rhetoric - Schemes and Tropes

I hope you enjoyed the recent series about the role critical-thinking can play in ethical decision making through an analysis of cases in...

More Than Mere Rhetoric

[Note: Some of today’s posting comes from a chapter on rhetoric in Critical Voter.] Before launching into a discussion of persuasive...