society today. While rhetoric is often met with a negative response from the public and seen as a way of tricking or manipulating an audience, this is merely a misrepresentation of the capacity and potential of rhetoric. Kenneth Burke, a 20th century rhetorical theorist, suggests a different, more positive definition of rhetoric. He says, “A rhetorician, I take it, is like one voice in a dialogue. Put several such voices together, with each voicing its own special assertion, let them act upon one another…
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