So...I have never made a blog before and am at a loss for words at the moment. The first day of class was very informative and it has been quite awhile since I have thought about the rhetoric or structure of words.
When I think of rhetoric, I think of words that really speak to you , and leave you pondering. Words that persuade you to take some sort of action or leave you with some sort of strong impression.
Although I have this idea of rhetoric, I sometimes feel as if I do not know how to give it an exact meaning. Frye's passage stating that "...all structures in words are partly rhetorical, and hence literary, and that the notion of a scientific or philisophical verbal structure free of rhetorical elements is an illusion" (350), kept me thinking for quite awhile. All I could do was read it over and over.
I am going to end on that note in hopes that tomorrow's class will present some more thorough ideas on what rhetoric is and what Frye's passage is telling us.
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