Rhetoric and
Composition: in Steven Lynn’s Rhetoric
and Composition.
 |
| Janak Tamang |
The word
“Rhetoric” means by to persuade someone with an argument impressing and
influencing way. It is the study of how writers, speakers, and artisans use
words to impress and influence to an audience or readers. And “Composition” means arrangement of words
into sentences, and sentences into poetry or prose. It is an artistic manner of
putting together words. Therefore, Rhetoric Composition means process of
writing, a group of word which influenced to somebody.
Rhetoric is not
a newly comers object of study, In the beginning it was used by people without
knowingly, they try to convinced to jury and return back their lost property in
persuasive way. So, Rhetoric came as speech
first than written form. That’s why; we can say that, Rhetoric is a tool which
impressed and influenced the people as in both positive and negative way. It’s create
the fear and playing with human emotion. Mostly in Advertisement, the languages of
Rhetoric are artificial, insincerity, and extravagant in order to create fear
and word play with psychological aspect of people and they became success to
convinced people. The political leader mostly uses the artificial and
insincerity language (argument) to convinced people but people doesn’t knew
that things and influenced and support with his argument.
Everything has
their own purpose by using gesture, costume, gaze, and facial expression etc in
rhetoric. In cause of Prime Minister, during his regime they always use the
typical Nepali costume but before and after their regime they did not, because
their appearance and looks makes them supreme and grace. As like in
Television’s “Talk Show” programme the anchor uses different kinds of dresses
as their programme’s subject matter to influence the audience. So it will
indirectly cooperate with audience mind and plays with psychological aspect of
audience.
To compose all
these things, process of building argument, and process of writing is
composition. In artistic manner, Particular word in particular place and able
to cooperate with situational demanded in order to create inspiration, fear,
happy, against, violence, and support etc. Arrangement of words, words putting
together, choosing the effective and persuasive words is a process of
composition. Each word has their own meaning even it carries several synonyms,
in particular place we must put particular prescribed word not simply synonyms
because it might destroyed the meaning of text.
Janak Tamang (Moktan)
MA 2nd Year, Universal College.
2014.
