This document provides a brief history of rhetoric and discusses its origins in ancient Greece. It notes that rhetoric referred to public speaking and involves persuading others. It mentions important early rhetoricians like Tisias and Corax in Sicily and Aristotle, who wrote about the rhetorical triangle of logos, ethos, and pathos. The document then provides four examples of situations and asks the reader to analyze them according to the rhetorical triangle.

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ABRIEFHISTORYOFRHETORIC
Why Arguments Matter

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RHETORIC
Greek for “Public Speaking”

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RHETORIC
Everything we do to
persuade others

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TheStoryBeginsinSicily
TISIASCORAX

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DEMOCRACYDEMANDS argument

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ARISTOTLEWRITESRhetoric

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LOGoS
ETHOS
PATHOS

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KAIROS

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Analyze these situations
according to the
Rhetorical Triangle Principal Dunbar
convincing Seniors
at a class assembly
to work hard for
their final
semester.

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Analyze these situations
according to the
Rhetorical Triangle A tween talking to
the school board
trying to convince
them to change
school start times
to 9:00 AM.

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Analyze these situations
according to the
Rhetorical Triangle
Taylor Swift trying
to convince her
fans to vote for
Hillary Clinton.

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Analyze these situations
according to the
Rhetorical Triangle
An insurance
salesman trying to
convince a client to
increase her life
insurance policy.