Rhetoric is situational and is a mode of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to object, but by the creation of discourse which changes the reality through the mediation of thought and action (Blitzer, 4).
What are some types of persuasive appeals?
There are three types of persuasive appeals: Ethos, logos, and pathos.
An ethos appeal depends on the personal character of the speaker,
A logos appeal depends on proof provided by the words in speech.
A pathos appeal is appealing to audience emotionally and putting them in a certain frame of mind. (Roberts, 8)
What is a rhetorical situation?
It is a complex of persons, evens, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about a significant change of the exigence (Blitzer, 6).
What is an audience?
A constitute of rhetorical situation that produces change to the rhetorical discourse by influencing the decision and action of persons who function as mediators of change. Rhetoric always needs an audience that are capable of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change. (Blitzer 7-8)
Kairos: Time and place that call for rhetoric
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