Author Archives: buriedrelic

Perhaps you’ve heard the word “decorum” before. In rhetoric, it is the meeting and creating of expectations in speech. Figures of speech and thought can be found through decorum. When someone says something like “history repeats itself,” this is a figure of speech. It sets up the expectation that the speaker believes what this figureContinue reading “Decorum”

Ethos, Pathos, Logos. These are three of the most well-known terms in rhetoric that most people don’t actually connect to rhetoric. During this week we used these artistic appeals to analyze very modern artifacts, namely the Super Bowl commercials of 2020. If Aristotle’s appeals can be applied to things today, they certainly can be appliedContinue reading “Gilgamesh’s Artistic Appeal”

We recently read some excerpts from writings by Plato, in which Socrates has discussions with Gorgias and Phaedrus about rhetoric. They were interesting to read, though I wasn’t sure how to feel about them. Plato seemed to depict Socrates in an odd way, and it makes me wonder if Socrates had anything remotely to doContinue reading “Plato’s Truth Today”

This last week has mostly been studying certain Sophists and their differences. We already know their similarities, after all, and the central one is that they were all sophists, and believed that truth is subjective and dependent on the individual. This is a belief I can get behind to a degree, though perhaps not toContinue reading “Sophists”

This week’s class focus has been Bitzer’s Metatheory. As I often am with new ideas and theories, I’ve been somewhat slow to grasp it and what it means. After looking around a little, I think I’ve found a good place for me to start. I want to take a short look at another blog, toContinue reading “Reviewing with Bitzer’s Metatheory”

To kick off this project, I’ll be writing up a definition of what rhetoric is in my mind. Since this is a rhetoric blog, I’ll establish a meaning for it at the very beginning. That way, I’ll have something to come back to at the end, after I’ve learned a lot, and see how myContinue reading “Setting a Definition”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”