Is rhetoric literature?
>>23624732Classical rhetoric, yes. Most rhetoric since then isn't of a high enougn quality to count as literature, but some can.
>>23624739Excellent I have some rhetoric here I would like to offer for critique, in addition to asking for advices to become an excellent rhetorician, and writer of speeches, comments, etc I particularly enjoy this goes nowhere says nothing but is vaguely agreeable type rhetoric>Today, things have been happening. those things that occured yesterday, two weeks ago, and now again today. I won't stand for it anymore, and neither will you..this marks a new beginning for all of us, a dawn where we won't stand for their nonsense any longer, upon which we all stand united against the tyranny of their oppression against us. Our board, it cannot continue like this, and without it, none of us can survive. We must put an end to their action. times like these call for unity of our action, of belief, unity of culture. This is the day that will be forever remembered as the day the final straw was drawn, the day we decided to cease seeing ourselves as different people from different places with different tastes and different ideas, and saw ourselves once and for all the same, the same for us, by us, for our preference and our excellence. We deserve the best, and they have time and again insisted on taking that from us. But no longer. Today is the end of that.
>>23624732>The very thing that was most to be desired, members of the jury, the one thing that will have most ef f ect in reducing the hatred felt towards your order and restoring the tarnished reputation of the courts, this it is which, in the current political crisis, has been granted and presented to you; and this opportunity has come about not, it would appear, by human planning, but virtually by the gift of the gods.> For a belief, disastrous for the state and dangerous for you, has become widespread, and has been increasingly talked about not only among ourselves but among foreign peoples as well– –the belief that, in these courts as they are currently constituted, it is impossible for a man with money, no matter how guilty he may be, to be con-victed. >Now, at this moment of reckoning for your order and your courts, when people are ready to use public meetings and legislation to stoke up this hatred of the senate, a defendant has been put on trial– –Gaius Verres,* a man already convicted, according to universal public opinion, by his character and actions, but already acquitted, according to his own hopes and assertions, by his immense wealth.
>The time for empty talk is over.>Now arrives the hour of action.>Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.>We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.>We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.>A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.>It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.>And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.>So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words:>You will never be ignored again.
>>23624768It's a politician's speech, and perhaps a bit too cliched even for that. To write good rhetoric you actually need to have a subject, even if it's just a particular emotion not directed at anything in particular, you still need to appear genuine. Artificiality is the bane of all pseudo-rhetoricians in the world today.
G-d, I love those suits
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