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Effective Use Of Rhetoric In High School

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Rhetoric is a necessity of everyday life,rhetoric is used worldwide because of the vast history and profound sensibility that effectively manipulates the human emotional state. For this reason, rhetoric needs to be applied to all High School AP English curriculums to be used in everyday life and protect oneself from other rhetorical devices. Rhetoric is used to convince an audience to perform any action the speaker wishes to be done; because of this students need to be able to use rhetoric so that their thoughts or ideas may not just be washed away in the future. Students can use need this useful tool later in life to be able to change their environment and control their audience. For example, when a student is in an interview and the interview …show more content…

Rhetoric has the capability to change their future boss’s perception of their character by building their credibility or ethos. (Heinrich) Rhetoric is also important for trying to persuade somebody a point or idea by using the environment around any given situation. Imagine a young couple strolling along the beach at night. The man gets on his knees to “Tie his shoes” when in actuality he is grabbing a small black box from his pants. The young lady looks back to see him kneeling and looking at her with his eyes full of confidence, but behind these eyes this young stallion is scared beyond his worst nightmares. “What if she says no? What if she says yes? Am I prepared for this next step? Does she really love me?” All these thoughts are crossing his mind in a split second that feels like an agonizing eternity filled with tension so thick you could cut it with a butter knife. However, this man is rhetorically strong; he realizes that the longer this tension continues the harder it may be for her, or even him, to say yes. So, he changes everything by simply smiling and pretending to laugh at how corny this is (even though subconsciously he knows the irony of the

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