AP English Language and Composition Resources
James Hutchinson
AP English Language and Composition
What is rhetoric? A few scholarly minds
define it this way.
Plato: [Rhetoric] is the "art of enchanting the
soul." (The art of winning the soul
by discourse.)
Aristotle: Rhetoric is "the faculty of
discovering in any particular case
all of the available means of
persuasion."
Andrea Lunsford: "Rhetoric is the art,
practice, and study of human
communication."
