Summer Assignment 1!

   
     Today we will be covering the two terms Rhetoric and the Rhetoric Triangle. Researching about what exactly rhetoric is comes up with a couple different meanings, but they all revolve around one central topic, persuasion. To be more exact it is, "the art of persuasion." Now, knowing this we can see that the Rhetoric triangle correlates with this very nicely. A rhetoric triangle is when the speaker has an audience and purpose in mine and uses ethos pathos and logos to determine the best way that they could win there audience over, and how to get the purpose of the work to come across.
    Rhetoric,  along with being known as the art of persuasion, it is known as "the study of effective speaking and writing." In this definition we see the use of the word "effective." In order to make something persuasive, it must be effective at convincing whatever it may be. Being effective in what your doing is key. Here we can connect to the book, "Flow" by Mihaly. The author uses logos to convince us that what he speaks of is real and his scientific backing. Having scientific proof is a very "effective" way of persuading someone to believe.
   The Rhetoric Triangle is seen in the book "Flow" because it has a speaker, who is the author, it has a audience which is people searching for a way to be happy, and finally it has a purpose. So far, the book focuses on attempting to show the audience the way to happiness. It of course doesn't just lay it out for us, the author first gives us examples and tells us why it proves to be so difficult for everybody to just be happy. He lays out that the universe was not created to make us happy, it gives us challenges. And all the while the author is explaining this, he keeps his main purpose in mind the whole time, the key to happiness.