· I found the best definition of rhetoric in Random House Webster’s Dictionary Rhetoric (n)
o The art of effectively using language in speech or writing.
· The Penguin Handbook of Literary Terms and Literary Theory says that “rhetoric is the art of using language for persuasion, in speaking or writing; especially in oratory. The classical theoreticians codified rhetoric very thoroughly. Acknowledge and command of it was regarded as essential”(pg.173).
· The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens has several examples of rhetoric. Hitchens as definitely honed in on using language effectively for persuasion. In The Missionary Position Hitchens uses rhetoric