"Rhetoric" defined

"Rhetoric" has been defined in many ways, by many people, just in English. Edward Schiappa says Plato may have first coined the originally Greek word. Sara J. Newman says Plato's student, Aristotle, then defines the term in the Rhetoric by "four definitional statements . . . three of which depend on metaphors" and "ambigous metaphors" at that. Here's what else people say "rhetoric" is:


Fendrich R. Clark's collection of
Definitions of Rhetoric
http://raider.muc.edu/~clarkfr/quotes_rhetoric.htm




Some Definitions of Rhetoric
http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/shakespeare/defs.htm

noted by Catherine R. Eskin




Selected Definitions of Rhetoric
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mdg42/ENG530rhetdef.html

of Mareen Daly Goggin


Some Definitions of Rhetoric
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/courses/sites/lunsford/pages/defs.htm

compiled by Andrea A. Lunsford




Aristotle's Definition of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric:
The Metaphors and their Message

by Sara J. Newman




Second Thoughts on the Critiques of Big Rhetoric

by Edward Schiappa



What is Rhetoric?
http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/rherotics.html
a question of Victor J. Vitanza