Rhetoric

Rhetoric is creative thinking. It is the How: how to use Grammar and Logic to one’s advantage.

The Figure

She is Venus, the goddess of beauty because rhetoric is eloquence.

She is free, liberated, because she has learnt.

She is spirited and inspired to be creative.

She skips across the earth, she communicates, she persuades.

The 5 Circles on her dress represent Cicero’s 5 cannons of persuasion:

Invention

Arrangement

Style

Memory

Delivery

Or Aristotle’s 5 traps of sophistry:

A self-refutation

A fallacy

A paradox

A solecism

Babbling, confusion