Blog 2

In Patricia Roberts-Millers “Rhetoric Is Synonymous With Empty Speech” her main audience was the general public. I believe this because this was included in a published book. Roberts-Millers describes rhetoric as the clothing on the idea. This basically means rhetoric is the addition of advanced language to cover up the meaning of a sentence. She also describes how there are two ways of forming sentences, Edenic which is the more straight to the point and when rhetoric is added to these sentences it begins to cloud the general idea of the author. The main objective of the text is to inform the reader of different philosophers ideas towards rhetoric and when rhetoric should be used. In “The Rhetorical Situation” by Lloyd F. Bitzer he talks about how rhetoric is used to influence an audience and persuade people. I believe the primary audience of this piece is again the general public. I believe this piece was created to inform readers how to properly use and identify rhetoric in order to get an intended response from an audience. He uses examples such as parliament and how when two or more situations are occurring at the same time the rhetoric may have less of an affect on the audience.