1.What is rhetoric? Do you think it important to study rhetoric?
According to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, the word “rhetoric”can be defined in various ways. On the positive side, it can refer to the art of expressive speech or discourse, including the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by ancient critics (as Aristotle and Quintilian) and interpreted by classical scholars for application, or the art and practice of writing or speaking as means of communication with persuasive or moving power; On the negative side, however, rhetoric may also mean artificial elegance of language—discourse without conviction or earnest feeling.
Yes.It can improve our abilities to express the language and polish the speech and writing. Therefor e, there are several kinds of functions. Besides, it is also an important skill that we should achieve.
earnest2.Give a brief account of the history of Western rhetoric.
It is generally held that the history of Western rhetoric is divided into six phases:
a.(500B.C.-400A.D.) classical rhetoric
b.(476A.D.-1416) rhetoric in the middle age
c.(15-16th,c.) rhetoric in Renaissance
d.(17-18th,c.) new classical rhetoric
e. rhetoric in the 19th ,c.
f.Contemporary rhetoric
3.What is the difference between grammar and rhetoric?
a. Grammar will tell you such things as where words can go and where they cannot; It will distinguish
an acceptable sentence from an unacceptable one. It deals with matters of right or wrong, whereas rhetoric speaks in terms of better or worse.
b. In the vast majority of cases, it is easy to judge whether a sentence is grammatical or not. It is far harder to say whether one version of a text is rhetorically superior to another.
c. Writing grammatically is of course a prerequisite, but it is only the first step. As an expert user of a language you must progress from mere grammatical competence to rhetorical competence.
4.What is the relationship between rhetoric and stylistics?
Rhetoric is the art or science of communication in words.
a. Extensive vs. intensive study: Rhetoric can be defined either as an extensive study of discourses, a science, which covers all the devices of the verbal and non-verbal elements to make human communi cations effectively, in which stylistics, the study of devices in languages that are considered to produce e xpressive or literary style, is one of the major domains; or as an intensive study.
b. Decomposing vs. composing process: Stylisticians lay stresses on the analyses of the style of ev entually-composed texts or discourses. Rhetoricians emphasize the composing processes of the texts o r discourses.
5.How do you understand “Rhetoric studies the effactiveness of language comprehensively”?
Rhetoric studies the effectiveness of language comprehensively, including its emotional impact (pathos), as much as its propositional content (logos). To see how language and thought worked together, however, it has first been necessary to artificially divide content and form.

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