Blog Post #1

For my first blog post I will be providing my full knowledge about the word “rhetoric.” I have not had that much exposure to the word rhetoric before and I do not know the definition. The first thing that comes to my head is the phrase “rhetorical question” which gives me the idea that rhetorical means something similar to biased or being one-sided(?), it is tough to give the word a singular definition because I feel that it could mean so many things. My understanding is that a rhetorical question is a question only has one answer or at least the person asking it only thinks that the question only has one answer, hence why I think that rhetoric could be similar to the word biased. Rhetoric could possibly be related to teaching, since I think I have heard the phrase “That course has a tough rhetoric.” So maybe it is also connected to teaching because I think that some teachers can be biased, and believe that there is only one right answer to a question. It could also mean that the ideas of the class are tough to grasp. Rhetoric could mean that you are trying to influence another person by presenting them with a singular answer to a question and at the same time dismissing all other possible answers at the same time. It is really tempting to look up the definition of rhetoric because I do not know if I am going off on some sort of weird tangent that is just going farther and farther away from the actual meaning of the word. I hope you found some meaning in this post because I felt like I was stumbling around in the dark, not knowing where I was going regarding “rhetoric”. I look forward to learning the actual definition of rhetoric next class.