What is rhetoric?

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Rhetoric is the study and use of written, spoken, and visual language that investigates how language is used to maintain and form social groups, identities, and behaviors. It began 2500 years ago in Ancient Greece in the forms of communication and argument for legal life, politics, and for the use of the public. The person speaking in rhetoric is referred to at the rhetor and the one to whom they are speaking is referred to as the audience.

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