By standard definition, rhetoric is using language effectively to please or persuade. Appearing in speech and writing, rhetoric is the method by which ideas are demonstrated through linguistic which are suggestive of skill and logic. It includes such things as diction, metaphor, and other features of linguistic word choice of written and spoken style. But rhetoric isn’t just this definition; it is also a way to finding truth by persuasion. With Aristotle’s three rhetorical settings and the three artistic proofs, he conveys the applicability of rhetorical expression and forming truthfulness.
The study of rhetoric truly begins at the specific study of persuasive context. There is no better place to begin defining rhetoric than with Aristotle's Rhetoric. Aristotle defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion," (Aristotle's Rhetoric Book 1, 1356a). Aristotle taught three elements of communication: the speaker, the audience, and the speech itself. He explains this in his book which is broken down into three parts, one on each of these elements of rhetoric.
In this book there are also three kinds of persuasive speech: political speech, legal speech, and ceremonial speech. In political speech, the audience is decision-makers like a political assembly. Its subject is the future, and its object is to move the audience to take some course of action. The end of this kind of speech is expediency. Political rhetoric is highly ethical in character.
In a legal speech, the subject is the past, and the object is the determination of what has or has not in fact happened. During a court case, a lawyer arguing would be an example of a legal speaker, although anyone who argues to an audience ...